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EKONOMIA i ŚRODOWISKO
Czasopismo Polskiego Stowarzyszenia
Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych
numer 4 (51) • 2014
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ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENT
Journal of the Polish Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
EKONOMIA I ŚRODOWISKO
Czasopismo Polskiego Stowarzyszenia Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych
RECENZENCI
dr hab. Arnold Bernaciak • dr Elżbieta Broniewicz • dr hab. prof. US Augustyna Burlita
dr hab. prof. PB Joanna Ejdys • prof. dr hab. Waldemar Gos • prof. dr hab. Tomasz Kaczmarek
dr hab. Dariusz Kiełczewski • dr Jakub Kronenberg • dr Damian Łowicki
dr hab. Piotr Małecki • dr hab. Małgorzata Mazurek • prof. dr hab. Andrzej Mizgajski
dr hab. prof. US Halina Nakonieczna-Kisiel • dr Dariusz Pieńkowski
prof. dr hab. Ewa Roo-Zielińska • dr Edyta Sidorczuk-Pietraszko • prof. dr hab. Jerzy Solon
dr Małgorzata Stępniewska • dr hab. Jerzy Śleszyński • dr hab. Zbigniew Zwoliński
RADA PROGRAMOWA
prof. Zbigniew Bochniarz (USA) • prof. Tadeusz Borys • prof. Adam Budnikowski
prof. Józefa Famielec • prof. Bogusław Fiedor • prof. Wojciech J. Florkowski (USA)
prof. Kazimierz Górka • prof. Włodzimierz Kaczyński (USA) • prof. Teresa Łaguna
prof. Rafał Miłaszewski • prof. Anatolij I. Popow (Rosja) • prof. Bazyli Poskrobko
prof. Leszek Preisner • prof. Tomasz Żylicz
ZESPÓŁ REDAKCYJNY
Redaktor naczelny – dr inż. Elżbieta Broniewicz
Redaktorzy działowi – dr hab. Stanisław Czaja
dr hab. Eugeniusz Kośmicki, dr hab. Barbara Kryk
dr hab. Dariusz Kiełczewski, dr hab. Małgorzata Burchard-Dziubińska
Redaktor statystyczny – dr Elżbieta Gołąbeska
Sekretarz redakcji – dr Bogumiła Powichrowska
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Economics and Environment 4 (51) • 2014
CONTENTS
THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
Andrzej Mizgajski, Arnold Bernaciak, Jakub Kronenberg, Ewa Roo-Zielińska, Jerzy Solon,
Jerzy Śleszyński, Development of the ecosystem services approach in Poland .............................10
Leon C. Braat, Ecosystem services: the ecology and economics of current debates ................................20
Jerzy Śleszyński, Time factor in economic valuation ..............................................................................36
ECOLOGICAL POLICY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Marek Degórski, Jerzy Solon, Ecosystem services as a factor strengthening regional
development trajectory ....................................................................................................................48
Józefa Famielec, Benefits from Ecosystem Services versus Measures of Socioeconomic
Development ....................................................................................................................................58
Krzysztof Mączka, Piotr Matczak, Is the ecosystem services concept useful in Polish
policy making? Qualitative analysis of experts perception ................................................................68
Marek Giergiczny, Sviataslau Valasiuk, Maria De Salvo, Giovanni Signorello,
Value of forest recreation. Meta-analyses of the European valuation studies ................................... 76
Sylwia Kulczyk, Edyta Woźniak Małgorzata Kowalczyk, Marta Derek,
Ecosystem services in tourism and recreation. Revisiting the classification problem .........................84
STUDIES AND MATERIALS
Andrzej Kostrzewski, Andrzej Mizgajski, Małgorzata Stępniewska, Jacek Tylkowski,
The use of Integrated Environmental Programme for ecosystem services assessment ......................94
Małgorzata Stępniewska, Resources of the Polish official statistics for valuation
of provisioning ecosystem services .................................................................................................102
Ewa Roo-Zielińska, Bożenna Grabińska, Relation between characteristics of natural
environment and ecosystem services offered, their indices and measures
(case study of three communes of Podlaskie voivodship) ................................................................111
Piotr Lupa, Andrzej Mizgajski, The influence of the data analysis scale on the estimated
size of ecosystem services .............................................................................................................. 125
Anna Bartczak, Tomasz Żylicz, Willingness to pay for forest cleaning in Poland.
Results from a Contingent Valuation survey ....................................................................................137
Damian Panasiuk, Environmental costs for exploitation variants of Racibórz dry polder .....................146
Andrzej Affek, Anna Kowalska, Benefits of nature – a pilot study on the perception
of ecosystem services ......................................................................................................................154
Agata Cieszewska, Joanna Adamczyk, Problems of mapping provisioning and recreation
ecosystem services in metropolitan areas .......................................................................................161
Iwona Szumacher, Piotr Pabjanek, The use of land cover data in ecosystem
services assessment ........................................................................................................................172
www.fe.org.pl/czasopismo
Małgorzata Burchard-Dziubińska, Urban farming – underestimated source
of ecosystem services. Allotment gardens in Poland case study ......................................................178
Arnold Bernaciak, Monika Wojcieszak, The Valuation of Trees in the Urbanized Areas
with the Compensation/Replacement Method and Benefits Analysis
(the Case of the City of Gniezno) .....................................................................................................187
Jacek Zatoński, Ecosystem services of abandoned land in a city: an example
from Poznań (Poland) .....................................................................................................................198
Janina Borysiak, Małgorzata Mazurek, Zbigniew Zwoliński, Land cover and ecosystem
services changes in agricultural landscapes of the Dębnica River catchment
(West Pomerania, Poland) ..............................................................................................................205
Marta Szkaradkiewicz, Szymon Szewrański, Jan Kazak, Ecosystem services
hot spot mapping: protected areas in the Lower Silesia Province, Poland .......................................221
Jakub Kronenberg, Marek Giergiczny, Costs and benefits of creating and maintaining
a stork village: case study of Kłopot (Cybinka Commune) ................................................................231
Adam Zydroń, Dariusz Kayzer, Krzysztof Szoszkiewicz, Małgorzata Górna,
Factors modifying willingness to incur expenses for the benefit of the Wielkopolski
National Park ..................................................................................................................................240
Ewa Rauba, Losses in surface water ecosystem services caused by waste water discharge ...................248
Małgorzata Rauba, The influence of the quality of flowing waters on freshwater ecosystem
services on the example of the Leśna Prawa river ...........................................................................257
INFORMATION
Documents of the Council of the Polish (before European) Association of Environmental
and Resource Economists, Lodz, October 13, 2014 .........................................................................266
Information for the authors .....................................................................................................................284
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SPIS TREŚCI
PROBLEMY TEORETYCZNE I METODYCZNE
Andrzej Mizgajski, Arnold Bernaciak, Jakub Kronenberg, Ewa Roo-Zielińska,
Jerzy Solon, Jerzy Śleszyński, Rozwój badań nad świadczeniami ekosystemów w Polsce ...........10
Leon C. Braat, Świadczenia ekosystemów: ekonomia ekologiczna .........................................................20
Jerzy Śleszyński, Czynnik czasu w badaniach wyceny ekonomicznej .....................................................36
POLITYKA EKOLOGICZNA I ZARZĄDZANIE ŚRODOWISKIEM
Marek Degórski, Jerzy Solon, Świadczenia ekosystemowe
jako czynnik wzmacniania trajektorii rozwoju regionu .....................................................................48
Józefa Famielec, Korzyści z usług środowiska a mierniki rozwoju społeczno-gospodarczego .................58
Krzysztof Mączka, Piotr Matczak, Czy usługi ekosystemowe są użyteczne
w tworzeniu polskich polityk publicznych? Jakościowa analiza percepcji ekspertów ........................68
Marek Giergiczny, Sviataslau Valasiuk, Maria De Salvo, Giovanni Signorello,
Wartość rekreacji leśnej. Meta-analiza wycen, przeprowadzonych w Europie ...................................76
Sylwia Kulczyk, Edyta Woźniak Małgorzata Kowalczyk, Marta Derek,
Świadczenia ekosystemowe na potrzeby turystyki i rekreacji.
Jeszcze raz o problemie klasyfikacji ...................................................................................................84
STUDIA I MATERIAŁY
Andrzej Kostrzewski, Andrzej Mizgajski, Małgorzata Stępniewska, Jacek Tylkowski,
Wykorzystanie programu zintegrowanego monitoringu środowiska przyrodniczego
do oceny usług geoekosystemowych ................................................................................................94
Małgorzata Stępniewska, Zasoby polskiej statystyki publicznej do oceny i wyceny
zaopatrujących usług ekosystemowych ..........................................................................................102
Ewa Roo-Zielińska, Bożenna Grabińska, Specyfika środowiska przyrodniczego
a zestaw usług ekosystemowych, ich wskaźników i miar
(na przykładzie trzech gmin województwa podlaskiego) ...............................................................111
Piotr Lupa, Andrzej Mizgajski, Wpływ skali opracowania danych
na szacowaną wielkość świadczeń ekosystemów ............................................................................125
Anna Bartczak, Tomasz Żylicz, Gotowość do płacenia za sprzątanie lasów w Polsce.
Wyniki badania wyceny warunkowej ..............................................................................................137
Damian Panasiuk, Koszty środowiskowe wariantów eksploatacji polderu Racibórz ............................146
Andrzej Affek, Anna Kowalska, Korzystanie z dobrodziejstw przyrody – pilotażowe badania
dotyczące percepcji korzyści płynących z ekosystemów ..................................................................154
Agata Cieszewska, Joanna Adamczyk, Problemy mapowania usług ekosystemów
zaopatrzeniowych i rekreacyjnych w obszarach metropolitalnych ..................................................161
Iwona Szumacher, Piotr Pabjanek, Wykorzystanie baz pokrycia terenu
do oceny świadczeń ekosystemowych ............................................................................................172
www.fe.org.pl/czasopismo
Małgorzata Burchard-Dziubińska, Rolnictwo miejskie – niedoceniane źródło
usług ekosystemowych. Studium przypadku ogródków działkowych .............................................178
Arnold Bernaciak, Monika Wojcieszak, Wycena wartości drzew na terenach zurbanizowanych
metodami kosztu odtworzenia i analizy korzyści (przykład miasta Gniezna) ..................................187
Jacek Zatoński, Usługi ekosystemów terenów odłogowanych w miastach. Przykład Poznania ............198
Janina Borysiak, Małgorzata Mazurek, Zbigniew Zwoliński, Zmiany z pokryciu terenu
i usługach ekosystemowych w rolniczych krajobrazach zlewni rzeki Dębnicy
(Pomorze Zachodnie, Polska) ..........................................................................................................205
Marta Szkaradkiewicz, Szymon Szewrański, Jan Kazak, Analiza zróżnicowania
przestrzennego wybranych usług ekosystemów na tle obszarów chronionych
w województwie dolnośląskim .......................................................................................................221
Jakub Kronenberg, Marek Giergiczny, Koszty i korzyści utworzenia i działalności
bocianiej wioski na przykładzie Bocianiej Wsi Kłopot (gmina Cybinka) ...........................................231
Adam Zydroń, Dariusz Kayzer, Krzysztof Szoszkiewicz, Małgorzata Górna,
Czynniki różnicujące skłonność respondentów do ponoszenia kosztów na rzecz
Wielkopolskiego Parku Narodowego ...............................................................................................240
Ewa Rauba, Straty w świadczeniach ekosystemów wód powierzchniowych
spowodowane emisją ścieków ........................................................................................................248
Małgorzata Rauba, Wpływ jakości wód płynących na świadczenia ekosystemów wodnych
na przykładzie rzeki Leśna Prawa ....................................................................................................257
INFORMACJE
Dokumenty z Walnego Zebrania Sprawozdawczo-Wyborczego Polskiego Stowarzyszenia
Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych, Łódź, 13 października 2014 roku ......................266
Informacje dla autorów .......................................................................................................................... 285
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THEORETICAL AND
METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
PROBLEMY TEORETYCZNE
I METODYCZNE
Economics and Environment • 4 (51) • 2014
Andrzej Mizgajski • Arnold Bernaciak • Jakub Kronenberg
Ewa Roo-Zielińska • Jerzy Solon • Jerzy Śleszyński
DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
APPROACH IN POLAND
Prof. Andrzej Mizgajski, Ph.D.
Assoc. Prof. Arnold Bernaciak, Ph.D.
Jakub Kronenberg, Ph.D.
Prof. Ewa Roo-Zielińska, Ph.D.
Prof. Jerzy Solon, Ph.D.
Prof. Jerzy Śleszyński, Ph.D.
– Adam Mickiewicz University
– Poznań School of Banking
– University of Lodz
–Stanisław Leszczycki Institute of Geography and Spatial
Organization Polish Academy of Science
– Stanisław Leszczycki Institute of Geography and Spatial
Organization Polish Academy of Science
– University of Warsaw
correspondence address:
Adam Mickiewicz University
Department of Integrated Geography
Dziegielowa 27, 61-680 Poznan
e-mail: [email protected]
ROZWÓJ BADAŃ NAD ŚWIADCZENIAMI EKOSYSTEMÓW
W POLSCE
STRESZCZENIE: W tekście przedstawiono zarys stanu badań nad świadczeniami ekosystemów w Polsce, który
zrelacjonowano opierając się na materiałach Sympozjum ECOSERV2014. Na tle zaawansowania prac w instytucjach Unii Europejskiej zestawiono wyniki najnowszych badań w Polsce. Oprócz zagadnień teoretycznych, w tym
metod oceny i wyceny, uwzględniono przydatność tego podejścia w zarządzaniu środowiskiem. W sposób szczególny wyodrębniono korzyści oferowane przez ekosystemy terenów zurbanizowanych i ekosystemy terenów
wiejskich. Rozpatrując tę problematykę w świetle percepcji przez człowieka, pokazano wyniki badań nad
kulturowymi świadczeniami ekosystemów. Przedstawiono ogólną ocenę badań w tej dziedzinie w Polsce i rekomendacje.
SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: świadczenia ekosystemów, teoria ekosystemów, ekosystemy Polski
Theoretical and Methodological Problems
Introduction
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment has popularised in the world an approach that de ined ecosystem services, although bene its from processes in ecosystems have been known since time immemorial1. The rapidly growing interest
of researchers in this approach2 re lects a distinct shift of the paradigm concerning the humans environment relationship. This is shown by moving away from
the opposition between the two components, which gives way to a search for
harmony between them. In the classical approach, the researchers focused on
forms and the scope of the negative human impact on the environment, while the
new research area is clearly targeted at various aspects of identifying and stimulating bene its, which people can draw from nature3. Such an approach is very
attractive politically as it justi ies the rationality of efforts and costs incurred to
preserve natural systems in an understandable manner.
European context
This was expressed in the EU environmental policy, especially in the formulation of the Biodiversity Strategy, which calls Member States to “map and assess
the state of ecosystems and their services on their national territory by 2014,
assess the economic value of such services, and promote the integration of these
values into accounting and reporting system at the EU and national levels by
2020”4. Following the political document, the European Commission took supportive actions initiating the activity of the European Environment Agency as
well the Joint Research Centre and creating the process entitled Mapping and
Assessment of Ecosystems and Their Services (MAES). The results of this activities include the publication of two MAES reports5, development of several generations of the Common International Classi ication of Ecosystem Services6 and the
1 E. Gómez-Baggenthun et al., The history of ecosystem services in economic theory and practice:
from early notions to markets and payments schemes, “Ecological Economics” 2010 no. 69,
p. 1209-1218.
2 R. Costanza, I. Kubiszewski, The authorship structure of “ecosystem services” as a transdisciplinary ield of scholarship, “Ecosystem Services” 2012 no. 1, p. 16-25.
3 A. Mizgajski, Świadczenia ekosystemów jako rozwijające się pole badawcze i aplikacyjne,
„Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2010 no. 1(37), p. 10-19.
4 Our life insurance, our natural capital: an EU biodiversity strategy to 2020 (target 2, action 5)
European Commission 2011, p. 244.
5 An analytical framework for ecosystem assessments under Action 5 of the EU Biodiversity
Strategy to 2020; Indicators for ecosystem assessments under Action 5 of the EU Biodiversity
Strategy to 2020.
6 www.cices.eu [20-10-2014].
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creation of an online platform7 facilitate the circulation of information concerning the issues under consideration. During the 3rd ECOSERV 2014 National Symposium, Anne Teller, representing the European Commission, presented a methodological approach and directions for actions conducted at the European level
aimed at increasing the recognition of ecosystem services (ES) in member states.
ECOSERV Symposiums
Against this background, it can be concluded that applied work in Poland has
not gained momentum yet. However, Poland has vast databases of spatial data,
which can be the basis for the construction of indices and the irst comprehensive
concept of ES for Poland was formulated in 20128.
In the latest Polish literature, the issue of environmental values and its resources is currently based on economic sciences9. Among naturalists, looking at
the nature through the prism of bene its for humans, especially economic ones, is
not very popular. However, already in the mid-1970s, Polish geographer Tadeusz
Bartkowski formulated the following view: “At the same time, it should be emphasised that it is necessary to develop geographical information in such a way that it
is possible to move from its geographical valuation. It is the irst step towards research, in which it will be possible to establish relationships between physicogeographical data and their economically tangible impact”10.
National symposiums on ecosystem services (ES) held in Poznań every two
years refer to this approach as the object of transdisciplinary studies. These
meetings and publications that follow11 create a very good opportunity to review
progress in methodology and application of this concept. The development of
cooperation between representatives of natural, economic and social sciences is
an element conditioning progress in research on ecosystem services. Both an amateur approach of economists to nature and a non-professional use of tools of
economic and social sciences by ecologists signi icantly inhibit the development
of this multidisciplinary research and application issue.
The third symposium in this cycle re lected a new stage of development of ES
research in Poland. It is mostly manifested by the re lection on the availability of
source data and their quality and the growing number of original research studies conducted mostly on a local and regional scale. The plenary part convincingly
showed the necessity of forming a competent connection between the natural
www.biodiversity.europa.eu [20-10-2014].
A. Mizgajski, M. Stępniewska, Ecosystem services assessment for Poland – challenges and possible solutions, „Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2012 no. 2(42), p. 54-73.
9 E.g.: J. Famielec, Straty i korzyści ekologiczne w gospodarce narodowej, Warszawa 1999;
B. Fiedor, p. Czaja, A. Graczyk, Z. Jakubczyk, Podstawy ekonomii środowiska i zasobów naturalnych, Warszawa 2002; T. Żylicz, Ekonomia środowiska i zasobów naturalnych, Warszawa 2004.
10 T. Bartkowski, Ochrona zasobów przyrody i zagospodarowania środowiska geogra icznego,
Warszawa–Poznań 1975, p. 334.
11 „Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2010 no. 1(37); „Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2012 no. 2(42).
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and social and economic areas in a presentation on the importance of ES bundles
for the regional development. The recognition of importance of bene its from nature as a developmental factor is not duly re lected in the availability of statistical
data; however, it was demonstrated with a well-documented analysis of public
statistics, which allows for a quantitative determination of the scope of ES, especially on a local level. These indings correspond with an overview of possibilities
of taking into account the bene its drawn from ecosystems in the existing measures. The overview was performed against the background of an original discussion of the national scope of ES. An important theoretical re lection pertained to
the importance of time as a factor signi icantly in luencing the results of economic valuation of ES. Attention was paid not only to instability of prices in the market, but also to the assessment of bene its and costs which vary over time.
Data for the valuation of ecosystem services
A large part of presentations refered to the problem of source data and their
use for ES quanti ication. Attention was paid to the usefulness of data collected
by base stations of the integrated environmental monitoring and reference values based on multi-year observation cycles. They can be used for the assessment
of a range of regulating services of forest and water ecosystems, in particular as
regards the regulation of the hydrological cycle. The research was conducted
using the example of three municipalities from the Podlaskie province and it focused on the possibility of using various sources of local data for estimating ES
supply. At the same time, the need exists for precise distinction between the potential and actual levels (as used by society) of ES. It also resulted from the established indings that although the hierarchy of resources used mostly depended
on the land cover structure, the knowledge about the land cover is not suf icient
for realistic modelling of the use of the natural capital.
The analysis of the in luence of the degree of generalization of spatial data on
the estimation of the ES size touched upon an important issue. By using data with
a varying degree of aggregation for a selected commune, statistically signi icant
differences were shown unambiguously for the results obtained as regards both
provisioning services (production of crops) and cultural services (recreational
and aesthetic value).
Using the example of the Gorczański National Park, an attempt was made to
use the ES conceptual framework for the analysis of erosion risk using the modelling in the GIS environment. On this basis, the presentation considered the possibility of managing the space in a way that would minimise the erosion risk. In
other words, the scope and necessity of human actions to preserve/improve the
ecosystem ability to ful il a given function were analysed. Such an approach, different from the classical way of handling issues pertaining to ecosystem services,
is, however, consistent with the model resulting from MAES work, in which ecosystem services are considered to include natural environment functions togeth-
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er with human activity that stimulates them. An atypical approach was used for
the analysis of environmental consequences of three variants to use a dry lood
reservoir in Racibórz. Depending on the capacity for water retention, the surface
areas of ecosystems, which can be lost were determined, which was identi ied
with ES elimination. The size of this loss was expressed in monetary units using
a controversial evaluation on a global scale12 for this purpose.
An important group of papers pertained to the differentiation of the perception of bene its provided by the functions of ecosystems in society. The results of
surveys allowed for determining the level of knowledge about bene its provided
by nature and their assessment by various groups of inhabitants and tourists in
the Suwałki and Augustów areas. Research conducted in the Gdańsk Bay area
also focused on the differentiation of perception. It revealed distinct con licts of
interests in the assessment of various forms of tourist use, from ishery to the use
of aesthetic values and the protection of environmentally valuable areas. The presented study did not answer the question to what degree environmental inequalities result from different perception of the same phenomena and to what degree
they have obtained from depriving certain social groups of bene its so far. Other
research pertained to the detailed problem of differences in the assessment of
the role of bene its from the occurrence of seagrass in marine ecosystems. Basic
differences were identi ied between assessments of experts and assessments of
lay people. In many aspects, the social perception of seagrass was distinctly different not only from the actual function of this ecosystem component, but even
from the proper identi ication of this object. Research results documented that
the survey of the value attached to speci ic ecosystem services are heavily
dependent on the respondents’ level of knowledge.
Urban ecosystem services
A special session devoted to urban ES allowed for an overview of research
conducted in this area in Poland. This research is undertaken from the perspective of various scienti ic disciplines and, although individual researchers still usually fail to go beyond disciplinary boundaries, the early symptoms of such an approach can already be seen. The possibility of distinguishing in the symposium
programme of a group of studies devoted directly to ecosystem services in cities
constitutes a considerable difference as compared to the previous edition of the
symposium when only one study was directly devoted to cities13. Practical conclusions developed as a result of research presented during this year’s conference seem particularly valuable from this perspective.
R. Costanza et al., The value of the world’s ecosystem services and natural capital, “Nature”
1997 no. 387, p. 253-260.
13 J. Kronenberg, T. Bergier, K. Maliszewska, Overcoming barriers to the use ecosystem services
for sustainable development of cities in Poland, „Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2012 no. 2 (42),
p. 106-120.
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The growing interest in ecosystem services in cities and for the urban population re lects a tendency observed in research conducted on an international
scale. It is mostly connected with ongoing urbanization – already nearly 55% of
people in the world live in cities, and the share of urban population has already
reached 75% in the European Union. The fact that the condition of the natural
environment in cities and outside of them in luences the quality of city dwellers’
lives is re lected to an increasing degree in the results of ES research conducted
in Poland.
An overview of indices illustrating the situation of green areas in 38 Polish
cities has a diagnostic nature. It provides basic information, which should be
used in further considerations on greenery management. Another analysis shows
differentiation of the spatial structure of urban green infrastructure systems in
ten European metropolitan areas. On the basis of land use/land cover data for
these areas, the authors prepared maps of ecosystem services provided by these
areas. Eventually, this was used as a basis for recommendations for the creation
of a system of green infrastructure in Warsaw. The example of Warsaw was also
considered in an analysis of land use/land cover changes of selected urban and
suburban areas in the years 1972-2012. On this basis, changes in the potential for
ES provision were estimated. Another analysis focused on ecosystem services
provided by areas set aside (semi-natural or developed but currently not used),
based on the example of Poznań. It was found that their area is equal to that of
organized green spaces and they are often characterised by a signi icantly greater biodiversity.
Two reports present the perspective of economic sciences on monetary valuation of selected ES. The irst shows the pertinence of the economic valuation of
ES provided by allotment gardens, which signi icantly increases the scope of arguments in discussion on the desirability of keeping this form of land use. An attempt at estimating the monetary value of street trees and the scope of services
they deliver in a medium-sized city has a practical application.
The problems reported here do not exhaust the scope of research on urban
ecosystem services in Poland. It is worth noting that practical guidelines with
regard to the management of ES in urban areas14 have already started to stimulate a practical use of this approach.
14 A series of guides published by the Institute of Spatial Management and Housing, e.g.:
H.B. Szczepanowska, Wycena wartości drzew na terenach zurbanizowanych, Warszawa 2007;
A series of guides published by the Sendzimir Foundation: “Nature in the city. Ecosystem services – untapped potential of cities” “Nature in the city. Solutions”, “Water in the city”, all available in English and in Polish at www.sendzimir.org.pl [20-10-2014].
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Ecosystem services in rural areas
A separate session was devoted to ecosystem services in rural areas. The
speci icity of agricultural ecosystems and forests draws attention to provisioning
services. This type of bene its has been known since time immemorial and no
signi icant new research indings are expected in this area. Insuf icient knowledge mostly pertains to other types of bene its, i.e. regulating and cultural ones
provided by ecosystems of rural areas. The results presented provide signi icant
research indings for both kinds of services mentioned above. Research on ES
changes in the Dębnica catchment area (NW Poland) was based on the recognition of changes in biotops used for agriculture during the political transformation. On this basis, directions of ES changes were estimated, which involved the
growing role of regulating services at the expense of provisioning and cultural
services. Another report focuses on identi ication and assessment of regulating
services using selected villages in S Poland. Based on detailed carthographic
sources, the author showed prevention of water erosion, absorption of pollutants, protection of groundwater quality and self-puri ication of surface water
bodies. At the same time, it was established that the size of individual regulating
services is varied in individual villages, depending on the properties of the environment and the degree of human pressure.
An analysis on a regional scale of spatial diversity of selected ecosystem services against the background of naturally valuable areas in the Lower Silesian
Province has a methodological nature. Thematic maps of spatial diversity, physical and biotic properties of water bodies, soils, forests and the air, plants, animals
and land cover are to constitute the basis for ES identi ication. In the authors’
opinion, ES levels in protected areas are to constitute benchmarks, with which
the results obtained from other parts of the region will be compared.
The identi ication of bene its drawn from the structure and functions of ecosystem in the Lębork District pertains to a supralocal level. Using the ES conceptual framework, the authors focused on environmental protection, taking into
consideration biological diversity and actions, which need to be taken to maintain sustainable development.
An interesting study of non-productive functions of ish pond ecosystems is
presented using the example of Milicz Ponds in the Barycza Valley. Apart from
provisioning services connected with food production, they play an important
role in retaining and protecting water quality, in maintaining biodiversity (regulating services), and are also characterised by aesthetic and cultural values.
Cultural services
A separate session was devoted to reports on research on cultural services as
a special type of services provided to the social and economic system by ecosystems. Their different nature results from the fact that they are the result of subjective perception of the natural reality by individual persons while provisioning
and regulating services pertain to goods and services, which have a material dimension. The fact of the subjectivity of the assessment cultural bene its from the
functioning of ecosystems constitutes a fundamental dif iculty in their quanti ication. However, cultural services are subjected to research and analyses, including, in particular, attempts at various valuations. Numerous varied methods are
used for determining their value.
A meta-analysis of 53 studies on declared and revealed preferences in recreational use of forests, which were conducted in eight countries in the years 19702012. Owing to a long time span of the analysis, it was possible to identify their
variability in time and space. The research showed that the following factors
contribute to an increase in the recreational value of forests: location in a national park, a considerable distance from cities and a relatively large surface area.
A study conducted in the Wielkopolski National Park, in turn, using the WTP
(willingness to pay) and WTA (willingness to accept) methods made it possible to
estimate its social value. At the same time, it revealed factors, which had a significant in luence on the shape of these values. It is striking that the inancial readiness to support environmental protection is not signi icantly related to the respondents’ af luence.
A very interesting cost–bene it analysis was conducted to determine the economic ef iciency of protecting sites of colonial nesting of white storks and their
adaptation to the provision of tourism-related ecosystem services. Creating such
“stork villages” required the development of infrastructure, additional expenditures on environmental protection as well as marketing and educational activities. Public bene its were connected with tourist and recreational use of the village and estimated with the travel cost method.
A study of social assessment of forest littering and the degree of readiness to
incur the costs of cleaning adopted a different perspective. Such an approach can
be treated as an analysis of weight attached by various social groups to restoration
of an appropriate level of cultural services, which has been degraded by littering.
Signi icant recreational services are provided by water ecosystems. An attempt was made for selected lakes in NW Poland to relate the sanitary condition
of beaches and bathing areas to the level of recreational services.
Attention was drawn to the dif iculty in classi ication of cultural services in
a report on a survey conducted among experts pertaining to the types of ecosystem services, which are of importance for tourism and recreation. The results
show that these activities are connected with the use of various types of bene its.
This outcomes questioned the legitimacy of treating tourism and recreation as
a one separate group of cultural services.
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Evaluation and Conclusions
The presented synthetic overview of completed and ongoing research on
ecosystem services in Poland distinctly shows a high activity of numerous research groups from various academic centres. It shows that a transition was
made from the stage of speculations to a stage of collecting and interpreting information. However, it is quite easy to notice that individual authors use different
basic assumptions and different research methods. In particular, the approach to
relations between the environmental complex of processes occurring in the environment and ecosystem services. The results presented are generally very interesting, however, they show distinctly that it is necessary to establish theoretical
foundations and develop at least an outline of a common methodological platform allowing for an analysis of various problems in a manner, which makes it
possible to compare the results obtained by teams from different research centres.
Ecosystem services, as a research approach, have an applied character in the
political and social context. Therefore, it is necessary to expect a greater activity
from state authorities as regards the implementation of this approach at various
levels of society. This would be an impulse for harmonisation of future research
and applied work. However, as shown by an analysis of 46 legal acts and strategic
documents presented during the symposium, the issue of ecosystem services is
only marginally present in legal acts and strategic documents pertaining to environmental protection policy.
The presentation by Leon Braat related the results of Polish research to the
international debate on ES, featuring the following four most important issues:
• The boundary between ecosystems and economic systems: functions, services & bene its;
• Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services: causal links and management options;
• Cultural Services: human mental frames of ecosystem information lows;
• Economic & Social Value: ecosystems as the basis of the Value Production Chain.
The list of issues shows that ES as a research ield is still at a very early stage
of development. The summing-up discussion conducted on the basis of this information identi ied the following conclusions and future challenges.
ES as a multidisciplinary research ield enjoys a constantly growing interest
among ecologists, including, in particular, experts in geographic and economic
sciences. Representatives of other social science are less numerous, despite the
fact that their area occupies an important place in the research. The quality of
transdisciplinary ES studies would be higher if joint research projects were undertaken with the participation of representatives of various ields of knowledge.
The notion of ES is understood in various ways, which is understandable at
this stage. However, this notion should not be overly extended, e.g. to include all
natural processes and phenomena or all humans environment relations, as it
might become blurred as a result – as in the case of the notion of “sustainable
development”.
The ES area is an attractive research and application ield as it stimulates
a social interest in natural matters, which evokes an interest among politicians.
It is to keep the sovereignty of science against unavoidable expectations of politicians regarding the results of the diagnosis of bene its from processes occurring
in ecosystems.
ES research should not be reduced to their monetary price. Such a valuation
is usually obvious as regards provisioning services connected with the management of natural resources. Their prices are shaped on the market. A large part of
bene its, however, has a non-market character, which is why the methods of estimating the monetary value are used. However, economic valuation is always
heavily dependent on its context. The context of each valuation study is unique
and consists of methodology, sample, place and time what limits validity and
comparability of diverse assessments. It is risky to sum up such diverse monetary values or to use the calculated values as the basis for making practical decisions with no further re lection.
So far, research in Poland has focused on the provision of ecosystem services;
however, the problem of demand for ecosystem services and ES stimulation by
appropriately targeted human activity is beginning to emerge.
As ecosystem services develop as a research and application approasch, the
issue of sources of data and the in luence of their quality on the results of ES
quanti ication is becoming more and more signi icant. The qualitative and quantitative recognition of processes in ecosystems is of key importance as without it,
even the best interpretations of secondary data as statistics or GIS may be encumbered with unacceptable errors. On the other side, we deal with valuation by
recipients, i.e. a subjective area which must become standardized to account for
the “average recipient”. In this area, there are a large number of possibilities for
the occurrence of inadequate indings.
The fact that we are at an early stage of ES research should motivate interested researchers, who should not become discouraged by the lack of precision of
the indings made. At the same time, however, it is necessary to perform a reliable
analysis of limitations in the interpretation of results.
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Leon C. Braat
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: THE ECOLOGY
AND ECONOMICS OF CURRENT DEBATES
Leon C. Braat, Ph.D.
– Wageningen University & Research
Alterra, Wageningen University & Research
Droevendaalsesteeg 3
6708PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
ŚWIADCZENIA EKOSYSTEMÓW: EKONOMIA EKOLOGICZNA
STRESZCZENIE: Koncepcja „świadczeń ekosystemów” jest przedmiotem intensywnych dyskusji w środowisku naukowym. Jej praktyczne zastosowanie na poziomie Unii Europejskiej oraz w poszczególnych krajach spotyka się
z pewnym sceptycyzmem. Skutkiem tego szereg zagadnień jest gorąco dyskutowanych. W artykule przedstawiono stan debaty nad czterema tematami, które zdaniem autora zasługują na szczególną uwagę. Są to: (1) Granica
pomiędzy ekosystemami, a systemami ekonomicznymi: funkcje i świadczenia ekosystemów oraz korzyści dla
człowieka; (2) Zależności pomiędzy bioróżnorodnością, a świadczeniami ekosystemów; (3) Problem identyfikacji
i oceny świadczeń kulturowych; (4) Relacje między wartością ekonomiczną, a społeczną, czyli traktowanie ekosystemów jako podstawy wartości łańcucha produkcji.
SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: funkcje ekosystemu, świadczenia ekosystemów, świadczenia, bioróżnorodność, wartość ekonomiczna, wartość społeczna, wartość łańcucha produkcji
Introduction
Current Debates
Ecosystem services are “hot”. The concept is intensely discussed in the scienti ic community, both in the natural and in the social science corners. It is used,
developed and customised in the policy arena, with much energy at the European
level, and on average a bit less, but increasingly, at Member State and regional
levels. And, it is generally considered in a sceptical and apprehensive way in the
so called “practice” domain, both in (former) government agencies which have to
“get money” out of the market and in the business communities which realise
that they should be ready to jump in potentially new markets, but also that they
lack the knowledge to do so adequately. In this situation, a number of topics in
the wide ield that the concept of ecosystem services covers, have become hot
debate issues1. In this contribution to the Symposium, I highlight four of those
debates. The selection is my personal choice, and is based on what I meet in my
research and advisory work for DG Environment (the MESEU project) and for DG
Research and Innovation (the OpenNESS project), and on manuscripts submitted
to the scienti ic journal “Ecosystem Services”, of which I have the pleasure to be
the editor-in-chief. The four debate issues are:
1) The boundary between ecosystems and economic systems: functions, services and bene its.
2) The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services.
3) Cultural Ecosystem Services.
4) Economic and Social Value: Ecosystems as the basis of the Value Production
Chain.
Historical Background of the debates
The diagram in igure 1 illustrates the two decades of ecological (medium
grey boxes) and economic (pale grey boxes) concepts and their authors that were
blended into the concept of ecosystem services (dark grey boxes) and the discipline of ecological-economics.
From 1981 on, an increasing number of publications appeared, together with
international research projects, science-policy processes and political documents
L. C. Braat, The value of the Ecosystem Services concept in economic and biodiversity policy.
Chapter 10, in: S. Jacobs, N. Dendoncker, H. Keune (eds.) Ecosystem Services, Global Issues, Local
Practices, Amsterdam 2013.
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Fi g u re 1
History of the Ecosystem Services Concept
Adapted from: L.C. Braat, History of the Ecosystem Services concept, Introductory presentation, at ESP Conference 2011, Wageningen
2011.
(see for an extensive historical analysis: paper of Gomez and co-authors2).
The history involves the utilitarian framing of those ecosystem functions which
are used by humans, as they are deemed bene icial to society, as economic services. The development continues throughout the 1980s in the sustainable development debate3 and into the 1990s with the mainstreaming of ecosystem services
in the professional literature4, and with increased focus on methods to estimate
their economic value.5 In the 1970s and 1980s, a growing number of environE. Gómez-Baggethun, R. de Groot, P. L. Lomas, C. Montes, The history of ecosystem services in
economic theory and practice: From early notions to markets and payment schemes “Ecological
Economics” 2010 no. 69, p. 1209-1218.
3 WCED (World Commission on Environment and Development), Our Common Future, Oxford
1987.
4 R. Costanza, H. Daly, Natural capital and sustainable development, “Conservation Biology”
1992 no. 6, p. 37-46; G. Daily, Nature’s Services: Societal dependence on natural ecosystems,
Washington D.C. 1997.
5 R.Costanza et al., The value of the world’s ecosystem services and natural capital, “Nature”
1997 no. 387, p. 253-260.
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mentally aware authors started to frame ecological concerns in economic terms
in order to stress societal dependence on natural ecosystems and raise public
interest in biodiversity conservation. Schumacher6 was probably the irst author
that used the concept of natural capital and shortly after several authors started
referring to “ecosystem (or ecological, or environmental, or nature’s) services”7.
One rationale behind the use of the ecosystem service concept was to demonstrate how the disappearance of diversity of structure and processes in ecosystems (short: biodiversity) directly affects ecosystem functions that underpin
critical services for human well-being. The paper by Costanza and co-authors8 on
the total value of the global natural capital and ecosystem services was a milestone in the mainstreaming of ecosystem services. Their monetary igures, although surrounded by caveats, resulted in a high impact in both science and policy circles, manifested both in terms of criticism and in the further increase in the
development and use of monetary valuation studies.
The de initions of the concept have evolved through the various publications,
with varying attention for the ecological basis or the economic use. I take the
viewpoint that “Ecosystem Services are the direct and indirect contributions of
ecosystems in interaction with contributions from human society to human wellbeing”, which is a variation on the de inition given TEEB Foundations9. Of course,
the term ecosystem services was coined, according to most sources, in 1981 by
Paul and Anne Ehrlich10 (although there were many earlier references to the notion of useful work and bene its from ecosystems), but the process of bridging
the gaps between ecology and economics, and between the domains of nature
conservation and economic development, and the landing in the political arenas
took a few decades. And now it is the core of the EU Biodiversity Strategy and
enters other EU policies, be it through the side door. With highlighting the four
debates in this paper, I aim to vaporise some myths and create some better understanding of the challenging world of ecological economics.
E. F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. Blond and Briggs, London 1973, p. 288.
7 W. E. Westman, How much are nature’s services worth?, “Science” 1977 no. 197, p. 960-964;
L. C. Braat, S. W. F. van der Ploeg, F. Bouma, Functions of the Natural Environment Institute for
Environmental Studies, Amsterdam 1979; L. C. Braat, Sustainable multiple use of forest ecosystems: an economic-ecological analysis for forest management in the Netherlands. Dissertation,
Amsterdam 1992, p. 195; R. S. De Groot, Functions of Nature: evaluation of nature in environmental planning, management and decision-making, Groningen 1992, p. 345.
8 R. Costanza et al., The value of the world’s ecosystem services and natural capital…, op. cit.
9 P. Kumar, P. Earthscan (eds.), TEEB-The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity. Ecological
and Economic Foundations, London 2010.
10 P. Ehrlich, A. Ehrlich, Extinction: the causes and consequences of the disappearance of species,
New York 1981.
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Debate issue 1: The boundary between ecosystems and economic
systems: functions, services and benefits
The term Ecosystem Services still causes frowns in many places. It is not immediately clear to all that it is in fact a contraction of Ecosystem-Based Goods and
Services. It does also not refer, within the name, to the essential role of humans in
in luencing the lows of services, either directly by harvesting the biomass and
perceiving the information from ecosystems, or by investment and management
of the ecosystems that provide the work that regulate the environment for Homo
sapiens, humanity. Ecosystem is a concept from the natural science discipline
Ecology describing, measuring and analysing the world of biotic and abiotic components, lows and cycles, in biophysical terms and units such as kilograms, meters and seconds (see e.g. Fundamentals of Ecology11). Services (from Latin: servus; to serve, to work for….) is a concept from Economics, a social science discipline, describing the organisations and activities of people (Homo sapiens; a particular biological species) developed for their survival (e.g. acquisition of food)
and well-being (e.g. through specialisation of skills, trade and inancial mechanisms).
The diagram in igure 2 illustrates the relationships between “ecosystem services” which follow from the interaction between energy and matter from Ecosystem Structure and Processes (also called Natural Capital) with the energy and
matter from the Society (Aubergine box and circle; Human, Social and Financial
Capital). The services are recognised by people via the bene its, which are the
(partial) satisfaction of human needs and wants. In the pre-historical Hunter-Gatherer stage, humans can be viewed as still fully living inside as integral
part of the ecosystem, and like deer and wolves, enjoying the ecosystem functions, while being part of them. Sometime around 6000 years ago in North-West
Europe, Homo sapiens created their own localised agro-ecosystems, with crops
and livestock. Humans were still very much dependent for the satisfaction of
their needs on the direct supply of goods and services from the local ecosystems,
even far into the late medieval times. With the industrialisation, human society
developed energy sources independent from current sunlight energy, the so
called fossil fuels, in fact: fossilised biomass, so embodied sunlight energy. The
mental distance between humans and nature started to become larger and widespread, and more so as a majority of people in the world now lives in cities, where
the share of biotic processes has been reduced to marginal proportions. My model of the current ecosystem-(human/social/cultural) economic system is presented in igure 3, which is an adaptation of the TEEB diagram12. Ecosystem
functions, following from structure and processes are aggregate dynamics which
produce new structure and adapted processed as ecosystems evolve. By “de inition”, when ecosystem functions are used by humans, they are called ecosystem
services. This is the logical corollary of the utilitarian approach to the biology of
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H. T. Odum, Systems ecology: and introduction, Wiley, New York 1983.
TEEB, The Economics of Ecosystems..., op. cit.
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Fi gu re 2
Ecosystem services as the result of ecosystem and human interactive production
Adapted from: L. Braat, R.S. de Groot, The ecosystem services agenda: bridging the worlds
of natural science and economics, conservation and development, and public and private
policy, “Ecosystem Services” 2012 no 1, p. 4-15.
Fi gu re 3
Ecosystem Services as the linking pin
Adapted, based on: R.S. De Groot, et al., Integrating the ecological and economic dimensions in biodiversity and ecosystem service valuation. Chapter 1, in: P. Kumar (ed.), TEEB Foundations The Economics
of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB): Ecological and Economic Foundations, Earthscan, London 2010,
p. 9-40, www.teebweb.org [20-10-2014]].
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Homo sapiens. We look at (the rest of) nature as a system to feed, comfort and inspire
us, in other words, as provider of provisioning, regulating and cultural services.
Following almost 20 years of academic explorations, in the early part of the
present millennium a large study of the state and relevance of ecological systems
for society was conducted under the umbrella of the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP): the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment13. It was soon followed by an exploration of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity14. This
study, building on this initiative, has taken ecosystem services in the policy arena
with a clear economic connotation15. With increasing research on the monetary
value of ecosystem services, the interest of policy makers has turned to the design of market-based instruments to create economic incentives for conservation, e.g. payments for ecosystem services. Both models of ecosystem services
position the natural science domain on the left side and the human, social and
economic domain on the right side in the diagram. Ecosystem services low from
left to right. The TEEB diagram places ecosystem services as a linking pin between the natural and human systems and identi ies bene its for people following from services (and goods) delivered by ecosystems, and separates bene its
and values16. It also includes the “feedback” structure of control and investment
through institutions and ecosystem management. My diagram in igure 4 is a further elaborated version, which adds a negative feedback of pollution and destruction. The TEEB diagram in turn was an extension of the so called cascade model
published by Haines-Young & Potschin17.
Money comes into the model, if so desired, as a low which goes from bene iciaries to producers. In the real world, people pay money for goods and services
to other people, and never to the ecosystem, even when the ecosystem is clearly
a co-producer. There are representatives of the ecosystem collecting money, at
least there should be, but they are human owners or managers, not the animals
or the plants. These owners and managers should use the money to “ buy” resources for the ecosystem to replenish its stocks and buy time to rebuild damaged structure and re-boot processes. In the diagram in igure 4, the ecosystem
services low from natural systems via, agro-ecosystems to urban (industrial)
systems, and are exported to other regions. Money lows in the opposite direction, paying for the services and goods, both with the regional system and across
the boundaries for imports. Exports generate cash lows to pay for those imports.
And again, no money lows to the natural ecosystems, nor to the ecological part
of the agro-ecosystems. However if no investment and compensatory management is executed (and adequately paid for), the system cannot be sustained.
Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis, Island Press, Washington D.C. 2005; www.
maweb.org [20-10-2014].
14 TEEB, The Economics of Ecosystems..., op. cit. (again under UNEP umbrella).
15 www.teebweb.org [20-10-2014].
16 De Groot et al., Integrating the ecological and economic…, op. cit.
17 R. Haines-Young, M. Potschin, The links between biodiversity, ecosystem services and human
well-being, in: D. Raffaeli, C. Frid (eds.), Ecosystem Ecology: a new synthesis. BES ecological reviews series, Cambridge 2009.
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Fi gu re 4
Money flows in an ecological economic system
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
IN AN ECOLOGICAL – ECONOMIC SYSTEM
Imported goods
& services (fuels)
€
waste cycling
Nutrients
etc
work & technology
Ecosystem
functions
Sun
energy
€
humans
Agricultural
system
Natural
Ecosystem
€
Urban
system
B
ecosystem services
€
Exported
industrial
services
€
Exported
agricultural
services
€
Exported
ecosystem
services
Waste Heat
ǡ
Source: own elaboration.
Debate Issue 2: The relationship between biodiversity and
ecosystem services
There is clear evidence for a central role of various features of biodiversity,
e.g. abundance of different gene pools and of populations of key species, of functional traits, and spatial heterogeneity of habitat structure, in the delivery of
some – but not all – services, viewed individually. Maintaining functioning ecosystems capable of delivering bundles of ecosystem services requires a consistent approach to sustaining a considerable level of these (and other) aspects of
biodiversity. Most of the current measures and indicators of biodiversity and
ecosystems were not developed for economic assessment. They are therefore not
always able to show clearly the relationships between features of biodiversity
and the bene its they provide to people. A reliance on existing indicators will
capture the value of only a few species and ecosystems relevant to e.g. food and
ibre production, and will miss the role of the biological diversity in species, food
webs, nutrient processing chains and ecosystem productivity in supporting the
full range of bene its, as well as their resilience in dealing with human induced
stress, regulating services. A set of indicators is therefore needed that is not only
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relevant and able to convey the message of the consequences of biodiversity loss,
but must also re lect the aspects of biodiversity relevant to the ecosystem service
of interest, capture the often non-linear and multi-scale relationships between
ecosystems and the bene its that they provide, and be convertible into economic
terms. A relevant and well-structured overview of relationships between biodiversity features and ecosystem services as they appear in the professional literature is available in paper by Harrison and co-authors18.
Debate issue 3: Cultural Ecosystem Services
Cultural services are referred to in the professional literature as the group
which has not been research as much as the other types of services. This may be
true for ecologists and economists alike, but the phenomenon has been receiving
much attention in research disciplines dealing with social psychology, recreational behaviour, and especially landscapes.
In my view ecosystems deliver information from their (change in) structure
to observers, i.c. humans (see igure 5). Following information theory and various indices that measure aspects of information, the more diverse the source
system observed (e.g. in structure, horizontal and vertical patterns, colour, smell,
sounds), the more information is available to be perceived (following Shannon-Weaver Index). Humans that “are exposed to the same ecosystem” experience different aspects of the information lows. So artists, priests, professional
biologists, outdoor recreationists that all visit a particular ecosystem can see in
principle the same, and obtain the same information, with their eyes or other
sensory organs, but their minds (mental ilter) de ines the information that is
processed, and therefore the bene its they receive ( igure 6a). So culture in the
Cultural Ecosystem Services is the Mental Filter (maybe a Cultural frame of ilters
at group level) that humans consciously or unconsciously apply to the information from ecosystems. Different factors determine in combination the development of the ilter, which is the reason that artist, priest, biologist and recreationist all perceive different things in the same forest ( igure 6b). The classi ications
of ecosystem services schemes (MA, TEEB and CICES19) refer to these information lows and experiences, but do not clarify the process of information perception and the mental ilters. The model of cultural services is in fact very similar to
those of provisioning services, except that biomass and water are replaced by
information. Similarly, humans have to invest energy to obtain the information,
e.g. one may need to invest in access and facilities.
To assess economic or social values of cultural services, one needs to record
the values that individuals to the bene its they receive with the experience of the
information lows; economic value at individual level is based on “preference” for
P. Harrison et al., Linkages between biodiversity attributes and ecosystem services: A systematic review, “Ecosystem Services” 2014 no. 9.
19 www.cices.eu [20-10-2014].
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Fi gu re 5
A cultural ecosystem services model
Fi gu re 6
Perception of information and cultural mental filters
A
“HOME”
LANDSCAPE
RELIGIOUS
BACKGROUND
PROFESSIONAL
TRAINING
SOCIALECONOMIC
POSITION
AGE &
STAGE IN LIFE
Cultural
(mental)
filter
B
CULTURAL ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
Î non-consumptive use of “ecosystem space & information”
Information
flows
ECOSYSTEM
Components
(species,
communities)
Patterns (vertical,
horizontal, temporal)
Coulours, Odour,
Sounds
Cultural (mental)
filters
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which an individual is prepared to “pay” something (or give up something else).
Social value is how the ecosystem (via the service) leads to bene its in the social
domain (e.g. group excursion enhancing social structure etc. To calculate or estimate such values of an ecosystem’s cultural services, one could calculate the sum
of values of individuals, but also the values assigned as stakeholder groups (e.g.
recreation entrepreneurs) and as society (e.g. subsidies to protect and maintain
national landscapes). Monetary equivalents re lecting how important people
consider an hour of experience of exposure to ecosystem information can be calculated from Willingness To Pay methods, with all their limitations, and proxy
methods as travel cost involved. Recreation entrepreneurs have of course real
costs (investment and operation) and their balance sheets provide information
on how much people actually spend to recreate and enjoy the information from
ecosystem’s cultural services.
Debate Issue 4: Economic and Social Value: Ecosystems as the basis
of the Value Production Chain
The EU Biodiversity Strategy 2011-2020 has six targets and twenty Actions.
Target 2 is about ecosystem services, and Action 5 about the knowledge of ecosystems and their services, which is deemed necessary to make sustainable use
of the ecosystems possible. Action 5 includes 3 steps, which are in essence based
on the TEEB 3 step procedure, named (1) recognising value (by mapping and
assessment of ecosystems and their services), (2) demonstrating value (economic and social valuation) and (3) capturing value (developing policies for sustainable use via accessible data in accounting systems).
Mapping and assessment
It is essential to map the ecological, and also the human user systems, in the
landscapes where ecosystem services are to be assessed. Without precise delineations of system boundaries, the quanti ication processes will be unreliable, and
in human systems ultimately legal consequences of policies require exact property boundaries. Maes and co-authors20 give an introduction to and overview of the
challenges of mapping ecosystem services. The PRESS studies21. were developed
in the context of the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2011-202022. To support EU policy
J. Maes et al., Mapping ecosystem services for policy support and decision making in the European Union, “Ecosystem Services” 2012 no. 1, vol. 1, p. 31-39.
21 J. Maes et al., A spatial assessment of ecosystem services in Europe: methods, case studies and
policy analysis – phase 1, PEER interim report, Ispra 2011; J. Maes, et al., A spatial assessment of
ecosystem services in Europe: methods, case studies and policy analysis. Synthesis, Phase 2. PEER
report, Ispra 2012.
22 Our life insurance, our natural capital: an EU biodiversity strategy to 2020, COM 244 inal,
Brussels 2011.
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development, clear and speci ic de initions of the different ecosystems and of the
services have been produced in the MAES process (Mapping and Assessment of
Ecosystems and their Services) run by the EU with the Member states to implement Action 523. The describe the search for appropriate indicators, mapping
methods and techniques, data sources.
Most challenging is the quanti ication of the so called bundles of ecosystem
services. In assessing trade-offs between alternative uses of ecosystems, the total
bundle of ecosystem services provided by different conversion and management
states should be included. Economic assessment should be spatially and temporally explicit at scales meaningful for policy formation or interventions, inherently acknowledging that both ecological functioning and economic values are contextual, anthropo-centric, individual-based and time speci ic. Ecosystems produce multiple services and these interact in complex ways, different services being interlinked, both negatively and positively. Delivery of many services will
therefore vary in a correlated manner, but when an ecosystem is managed principally for the delivery of a single service (e.g. food production) other services are
nearly always affected negatively. Braat and co-authors24 have examined the
practices of mapping and assessment in a number of European countries and
regions and provide insight in best practices.
Valuation
Valuation is a mental process which includes assessment of situations and
making decisions on whether to act or refrain from action. All people do it, all the
time, mostly unconsciously, in view of so-called desirable ends (see igure 7a and b).
However when major changes in ecosystems and ecosystem services are at
stake with change in welfare and well-being, for example as a consequence of
land use change, economic or environmental policy, structured and transparent
valuations need to take place, also in view of desirable ends, but not at the individual but at societal level. Traditionally such projects were concluded with a inancial cost-bene it analysis, in which the costs of development as well as the
bene its recognised in the market were included. Also traditionally, costs of loss
and bene its of conservation of non-market ecosystem services, as most regulating services are, were generally ignored.
A broader approach, including the non-market aspects of welfare and
well-being is now being developed in many places, with the aim to integrate the
objectives of ecological sustainability, social justice and economic ef iciency into
the public decision making process25 (see igure 10b). The understanding of the
See: J. Maes et al., Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services. An analytical
framework for ecosystem assessments under action 5 of the EU biodiversity strategy to 2020,
Luxembourg 2013.
24 L. C. Braat et al., Mapping of Ecosystems and their Services in the EU and its Member States
(MESEU) ENV.B.2/SER/2012/0016; October 31, 2013: Final Report (1st year contract) Part 1:
Introduction, Summary&Conclusions 2013.
25 J. Farley, Ecosystem services: The economics debate, “Ecosystem Services” 2012 no. 1, v. 1, p. 40-49.
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Valuation and desirable ends
A
B
Based on: J. Farley, Ecosystem services: The economics debate, “Ecosystem Services” 2012 no. 1, v. 1,
p. 40-49.
complexity of the development of economic and social value (as depicted in the
TEEB diagram) is increasing, but still not generally embedded in decision making. In those situations where goods and services are co-produced by ecosystems
and human activity, the “value production chain” should be considered as a causal chain, which implies that the valuation takes place at the end of the chain,
based on the preferences of consumers, stakeholder groups or regional to international societies (see igure 8).
This valuation is by de inition subjective in that it re lects to what extent the
“ends” are realised in the perception of the valuators. The counterpart in this
process is the valuation of the inputs, both the biophysical inputs derived from
ecosystems (Natural Capital), and the inancial capital, labour and technology
inputs from humans. One may choose to quantify those inputs, and include these
objectively obtained numbers in the “input” or “cost” side of the valuation table,
but they should not be included in the total value estimate, as double counting
will then occur. One should also not put subjective value assignments on ecosystems features like species richness as a so called ecological value in the cost-bene it equation. Although done in some cases to give adequate attention to the im-
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The causal chain of value production
THE CAUSAL CHAIN OF VALUE PRODUCTION
OBJECTIVE
VALUATION
= MEASUREMENT
OF INPUTS
INPUTS FROM
NATURE & MAN
SUSTAINABILITY ?
SUBJECTIVE VALUATION
= MEASURE PREFERENCES
OF OUTPUTS
At Appropriate Scales
PRODUCTION
PROCESS
GOODS & SERVICES
OMISSIONS, UNREAL TRADE-OFFS
ƬDOUBLE COUNTING
portance of the ecosystem in producing economic and social values, this is already taken care of as in such value production chains, there is no economic or
social value without the ecosystem inputs. In addition, if ecological values are
listed as seemingly independent values assigned by people, next to economic and
social values, a risky and unreal situation may come into existence where decision makers trade-off economic against ecological values. To avoid omissions of
essential factors in producing bene its, a systematic approach which uses the
classi ication tables of ecosystem services as produced by the TEEB project or
more recently by the CICES project is an advisable approach.
Many methods have been developed to obtain quantitative estimates of economic and social values, as they are assigned by individuals, groups or societies.
For example most provisioning services provide bene its which are readily monetarily valued with market prices, while cultural services are often non-monetarily valued, or with shadow pricing methods. Such combinations are risky if the
interdependencies between ecosystem services and their inputs are not accounted for, as indicated above. The HYBRID valuation approaches need therefore to be
examined closely for such inconsistencies, and the search is now for “integrated
valuation”, which “is de ined as a systems approach recognising causal relationships between components of ecological-economic systems in assigning values
to bene its (resulting from ecosystem services) at individual, social group and
society level26”.
“To value is to monetize” in the eyes of many, some of which state this with
enthusiasm, others with horror. The limitations of monetary valuation are many,
E. Gómez-Baggethun et al., State-of-the-art report on integrated valuation of ecosystem services, OpenNESS project Deliverable 4.1, Helsinki 2014.
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if only that it is always time and location dependent, the currencies employed
may be quite instable, the market based methods suffer from the same laws as
the markets themselves, and when ecosystems are near critical thresholds and
ecosystem change is irreversible, money values do not help as regulatory mechanism27. Terminology is important in scienti ic and policy debates. A distinction
between monetization and expressing ecosystem service values in monetary
terms is proposed and discussed in paper by De Groot and co-authors28. Monetary valuation is sometimes understood to imply that ecosystem services must be
privatized and commodi ied (traded in the market). This is of course not a necessary corollary. As indicated above, money does not get paid to ecosystems, so the
monetary value assigned to services should represent (1) re lect the direct costs
for (and therefore payments to) human co-producers of ecosystem services and
(2) the costs for (and therefore payments to) maintaining the quantity and quality of the ecosystems (natural capital), which are the other co-producers of ecosystems. Non-Monetary valuation methods are most useful at the level of (stakeholder) groups which have decisions to make which affect all of the participants,
but most likely in different ways and degrees. The biophysical assessment methods are alternative ways to assess the input contribution from the ecosystems.
Braat & De Groot29 summarise the crucial issue of time in valuation: “inter-temporal distribution of costs and bene its is irstly a moral issue for all decision makers in general, and secondly a technical issue for those dealing with
ecosystem services, as ecological and economic systems involved in trade-offs
may have different clock-speeds. At the ecosystem level, the required natural restoration time may run into decades for wetlands and grasslands and hundreds of
years for forests”. Another relevant time aspect are of course the time-lags between economic activities and their impacts on ecosystem services, e.g. climate
change, extinction debts, etc. The consequence is that the application of ixed
discount rates to ecological as well as economic systems, as is common practice
in conventional economics and based on national interest rates, leads to results
which affect future generations disproportionally. While at the personal level,
most people seem very much aware of and concerned with the education of their
off-spring and their retirement inancing, the awareness at the group level is
rather small, and political choices re lect that (lack of) awareness and prioritisation”30. It suggests a dual approach to dealing with time in the human mind,
which has been labelled “thinking fast and thinking slow”31.
27 See: L. C. Braat, R. S. de Groot, The Ecosystem Services…, op. cit.
28 R. S. De Groot et al., Global estimates of the value of ecosystems and their services in monetary
terms, “Ecosystem Services” 2012 no. 1, vol. 1, p. 50-61.
29 L. C. Braat, R.S. de Groot, op. cit.
30 See also: J. Gowdy, Neoclassical economics and its discontents, in: TEEB-The Economics of
Ecosystems... op. cit., p. 20.
31 D. Kahneman, Thinking, fast and slow, Straus and Giroux 2011.
Capture (and manage) the values
Step 3 in the TEEB procedure is “to capture the values for a sustainable society”. In TEEB for Policy Makers32 the capture message is “providing information
about bene its, creating a common language for policymakers, business and society, revealing the opportunities to work with nature, emphasizing the urgency of
action and generating information about value for designing policy incentives”.
The third step is represented in the TEEB diagram (see igure 4) by the feedback
loop from the economics box to the ecological box and to the ecosystem services
lows, as institutional, policy and societal response. Capturing value thus involves
the introduction of mechanisms that incorporate the values of ecosystems into
decision making, through incentives, social arrangements and price signals. The
capturing also refers to making the “value” in the service actually tangible and
visible, in some cases cash-able and accountable, and generally includes payments for ecosystem services, reforming harmful subsidies, tax breaks for conservation, or creating a green market economy. Essential is the development (or
adjustment) of the legal system with respect to rights over natural resources and
liability for damage to ecosystem service potential. In Action 5 of the EU Biodiversity strategy, the third step is focused on the (accessible) storage of the values
of ecosystems and their services in Natural Capital Accounts. The aim is undoubtedly to have these values readily available for use or reference in future decision
processes involving expected changes in ecosystems and their services. A lofty
aim, but a challenge for all involved, from the scientists and policy makers to the
stakeholders and the decision makers. And one which will de initely not make
life simpler for those involved and those with ultimate responsibility, but one that
de initely holds more promise for a sustainable world.
32 TEEB, The economics of ecosystems and biodiversity for national and international policy
makers, P. ten Brink (ed.), London 2011.
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Jerzy Śleszyński
TIME FACTOR IN ECONOMIC VALUATION
Prof. Jerzy Śleszyński, Ph.D.
Faculty of Economic Science
Warsaw Ecological Economics Center
00-451 Warszawa, Długa 44/50
CZYNNIK CZASU W BADANIACH WYCENY EKONOMICZNEJ
STRESZCZENIE: Badania oceniające korzyści czerpane z ekosystemów są obecnie istotną częścią wszystkich badań
poświęconych wycenie ekonomicznej. Zjawiskiem niepożądanym jest marginalizowanie czynnika czasu. W artykule skupiono uwagę na pasywnej jak i na aktywnej roli odgrywanej przez czynnik czasu w badaniach wyceny.
Przedstawiono analizę dyskontowania, a w szczególności zwrócono uwagę na problem wyboru stopy dyskontowej.
SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: wycena ekonomiczna, dyskontowanie, świadczenia ekosystemów
Introduction
Thanks to economic valuation a lot of intriguing results was worked out and
published enlarging our knowledge and understanding of non-market goods and
services. Applying economic valuation methods researchers measured consumers’ willingness to pay for many goods which do not have any market price. Category of non-market goods includes also environmental goods granted because of
the existence and biological production of small and large ecosystems. Among
economic valuation studies the most peculiar place belongs to complex studies
focused on bene its stemming directly and indirectly from ecosystems.
Unfortunately, time factor used to be marginalized in many valuation studies.
This is why this article concentrates on a passive role and also on an active role
played by time factor in economic valuation. The paper demands for clear information about the date of implementation of valuation method and also for a more
advanced representation of time in valuation studies focused on natural capital.
The paper proposes a brief analysis of discounting in general and discusses selection of the discount rate in particular.
A passive role of time factor
Economic valuation studies produce results which need very careful and precise interpreting. Interpretation is not easy because of an inappropriate treatment of time factor. Basically, time plays in valuation process a passive role and
also an active role.
In its passive role, time is just a precise information “when” the valuation research was performed. Simultaneously, this is also an implicit information about
multiple market-speci ic relationships. First and direct relationship creates correspondence to all prices of other goods which are available on the market including substitutes and/or complementary goods. Moreover, this relationship
includes also, implicitly, a hint on trade-offs between valuated good and regular
market goods.
Obviously, economic valuation occurs in one strictly de ined moment or period. In its passive condition, time is represented by the calendar date. The research
itself reveals the value of a non-market good but this assessed value is constrained
to a very limited period and space. In other words, information on timing is an
important part of the context “label” giving an insight into the technical parameters of any valuation research.
However, this quite basic meaning of time has also its important consequences for the result. The number being an outcome of any valuation study has its
signi icance and validity which is no more stable and no more reliable than any
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other dynamically evolving market price. There is nothing like universal, ixed
and true valuation assessment. Calendar date, place, sample, and applied methodology determine the context, thus, they contribute to the result of calculation.
It is crucial that some contextual elements like place, sample and method can be,
more or less exactly, replicated in the future. However, the identity created by the
moment of time remains unique both in material and in philosophical sense.
Monetary assessments still experience rather limited understanding and
con idence. This is one more argument why it is evidently important to eliminate
valuations without transparently explained context from any serious scienti ic
discourse. In principle, economic values which are lacking calendar date, are not
up-dated, are wrongly transferred from other studies, or are presented without
necessary disclosure of their methodology may create, per balance, more problems than cognitive bene its.
It is always a matter of professionalism and responsibility of researcher to
ind out to what extend existing economic valuation assessments are still valid
and can constitute reliable and signi icant arguments. In conclusion to the passive role of time factor, it should be requested that each economic valuation attempt has to be supplemented by its technical description. This “label” should
inform on the context (“why”, “what”, “where”, “how”) with a clearly expressed
calendar date (“when”).
An active role of time factor
The problem of time is much more sophisticated with regard to an active role
of time factor. This statement is justi ied by a common fact: some costs and beneits generated by non-market good have their complex distribution in time. Quite
often, costs and bene its can be observed every day and year by year what suggests that researcher has to decide about the present value of future costs and
bene its. This calls for discounting calculation which is quite indisputable in the
case of market goods but not easy in the case of natural environment and some
non-market artifacts. An active role of time factor becomes extremely crucial
when time horizon of the study is very long and concerns future generations.
This observation applies also to the case when irreversibility phenomenon occurs and makes its impossible to consume some goods in the future.
Economic valuation remains still a lovely domain of academic studies. It is
very popular topic among students writing their master or doctoral thesis but at
the same time this topic occupies a marginal place in real-life economics and economic decision making. It is very likely that more intensive and practical applicability of empirical valuation to day-to-day practice of insurance business and its
compensation schemes would result much earlier in a more careful treatment of
time factor. Unfortunately, it did never happen on a large scale.
Therefore, the following ive questions should be addressed to improve the
theory and practice of time perception in valuation studies:
1) Do considered bene its and costs occur only once or do they take a form of a
stream in a course of time and their volume will be of varying intensity?
2) Are we in a position to foresee physical quantities of bene its and losses
which will occur in the future and assess their monetary value?
3) Can we de ine discount rates which will be appropriate coef icients for any
de ined time horizon of the study?
4) What kind of correction will be needed for discounting when the time horizon is extremely long or in inite?
5) How to proceed with discounting when irreversibility phenomenon causes
that some bene its will never occur in the future?
Questions enumerated above will be developed a bit in the next section of
this paper. However, it is perfectly clear that do not exist perfect answers to all
these questions. This paper does not pretend to give inal and universal (“one
size its all”) prescription for valuation studies but rather wants to encourage
further debate and some improvement.
In addition, non-market goods do not create any homogeneous category.
In particular, ecosystem services are not isolated from their ambient and have
a long term impact on biosphere, society and economy. Moreover, time horizon in
the case of bene its from ecosystem services exceeds standard time horizon appropriate for economic investment. Obviously, ecosystem services perspective
goes beyond a regular time-span of strategic documents which used to be limited
to a period of 20-25 years. Thus, it seems to be too trivial and arti icial to limit
valuation practice to an assessment of willingness to pay for an isolated, one-time
(just today) and on spot transaction.
Discounting and discount rate
Discounting is the process of expressing future values in present value terms
which allow for the comparison of cost and bene it lows regardless of when they
occur. It sounds to be a realistic and logic observation that people, in general, do
prefer experience bene its now and paying costs in the far future. The present
value of a future low of bene it or cost will be lower than the future value because of discounting. The mathematics of discounting meets a lot of criticism1,
mostly expressed by non-economists, and any discounting with non-zero discount rate can be accused to promote so called “tyranny of the present”.
This problem is very transparent and hot in the environmental management.
Discounting the value of one development project’s future environmental beneits makes their future value disappointingly low compared to the present costs
of ensuring them for the next generation. The same controversy applies to dis-
B. S. Matulis, The economic valuation of nature: A question of justice?, “Ecological Economics”
2014 no. 104, p. 155-157.
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counted value of a development project’s future environmental damage which
will be drastically low compared to the present cost of avoiding it.
“Discounting can easily become a pseudoscienti ic way of making the ethical
judgment that the future is not worth anything”2. This opinion of Herman Daly3,
one of the most in luential ecological economists, should raise our attention. Daly
gives one strong argument why the attempt of standard economics to solve the
intergenerational distribution problem by a market driven discounting is illegitimate: “The discount rate (interest rate) is a price, and like all prices it is determined subject to a given distribution of income and a given scale of the macro
economy. Different distributions of the ownership of the resource base over generations, and a different scale of the macro economy, will result in different prices, including different interest rates. Since the interest rate is determined by the
scale and intergenerational distribution of the resource base, it cannot be used as
the criterion for determining either scale or intergenerational distribution via
discounting. To do so would be circular reasoning”4.
In principle, the problem with intergenerational equity is rather a normative
economic ethics than pure microeconomics. Using market rates of interest as a
guide to setting discount rates does not necessarily distribute the burdens and
bene its of investment decision fairly between the present and the future. The
supposed basis of markets is the self-interested actions of mortal individuals.
The notion of discounted present value represents “the value to present people
derived from contemplating the welfare of future people. It does not re lect the
welfare of future people themselves, or even our estimate of their welfare. Rather
it re lects how much we care about future people compared to ourselves”5. However, communities outlive their individual members and what may make sense
for individuals seeking to maximize short-term present value may threaten the
long-range interests of communities.
In his conclusion, Daly is extremely critical with respect to discounting as
a panacea for intergenerational distribution and scale problems: “Standard economics routinely seeks to solve the intergenerational distribution problem by
discounting, as if it were a single generational problem of inter-temporal allocation of consumption over the life stages of a single group of individuals, forgetting
that different generations are different people and therefore the problem is one
of just distribution, not ef icient allocation. (…) Ecological economics insists on
the basic distinction between allocation and distribution, and even for single-generation temporal allocation suggests the logistic rather than the exponential
function as a more realistic representation of how people actually relate present
and future value“6.
T. Prugh et al., Natural Capital and Human Economic Survival, Solomons 1995, p. 98.
H. E. Daly, Steady-State Economics, Washington 1991.
4 H. Daly, Ecological economics and sustainable development. Selected essays of herman daly,
Cheltenham 2007, p. 29.
5 H. E. Daly, J. Cobb, For the common good: redirecting the economy toward community, the environment and a sustainable future, Boston 1989, p. 154.
6 H.E. Daly, Ecological economics …, op. cit., p. 253.
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In economics, exponential discounting is a speci ic form of the discount function, used in the analysis of choice over time. Exponential discounting implies
that the marginal rate of substitution between consumption at any pair of points
in time depends only on how far apart those two points are. For its simplicity, the
exponential discounting assumption is the most commonly used in economics.
However, alternatives like hyperbolic discounting have more empirical support.
Hyperbolic discounting is a time-inconsistent model of discounting. A large
number of studies have since demonstrated that the constant discount rate assumed in exponential discounting is systematically being violated7. Hyperbolic
discounting is a particular mathematical model devised as an empirically based
improvement over exponential discounting, in the sense that it better its the experimental data about actual behavior.
There is some empirical evidence in economic valuation studies that criticism of discounting in a form of the inverse of the exponential function was right8.
For instance, in the case of future safety effects, it seems reasonable to assume
that an individual’s anticipated utility loss associated with the prospect of premature death (or injury) remains effectively constant over time. There is also
some evidence that individuals do discount the future “hyperbolically” rather
than “exponentially”. The evidence comes from several psychological and medical studies.
In hyperbolic discounting, valuations fall very rapidly for small delay periods,
but then fall slowly for longer delay periods. This contrasts with exponential discounting, in which valuation falls by a constant factor per unit delay, regardless of
the total length of the delay. However, the time inconsistency of this behavior has
some quite perverse consequences9. Individuals using hyperbolic discounting in
their decision making reveal a strong tendency to make choices today that their
future self would prefer not to have made, despite using the same reasoning10.
Simultaneously, a good number of new studies wants to address adoption of
the discount rate in a more complex way. The study by Daniel Read introduces
“subadditive discounting”11 where discounting over a delay increases if the delay
is divided into smaller intervals. This sophisticated hypothesis may explain the
main inding of many studies in support of hyperbolic discounting – the observation that impatience declines with time – while also accounting for new and
unconventional observations not predicted by hyperbolic discounting.
S. Frederick, G. Loewenstein, T. O’Donoghue, Time discounting and time preferences: a critical
review, “Journal of Economic Literature” 2002 no. 40, p. 351-401.
8 I. J. Bateman et al., Economic valuation with stated preference techniques, Cheltenham 2002.
9 The standard experiment used to compare short-term preferences with long-term preferences. For instance: “Would you prefer a dollar today or two dollars tomorrow?” or “Would
you prefer a dollar in one year or two dollars in one year and one day?” For certain range of
offerings, a signi icant fraction of subjects will take the lesser amount today, but will gladly
wait one extra day in a year in order to receive the higher amount instead.
10 D. Laibson, Golden eggs and hyperbolic discounting, “Quarterly Journal of Economics” 1997
no. 112, v. 2, p. 443-477.
11 D. Read, Is time-discounting hyperbolic or subadditive?, “Journal of Risk and Uncertainty”
2001 no. 23, v. 1, p. 5-32.
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There is also a “component based” approach providing a rationale for social
discounting within the natural resource damage assessment12. “The proposed
approach is a combination of some theoretical foundations of dual-rate discounting and time-declining social discounting. The former provides the principle that
different discount rates should be used when considering either tangible (cost
components) or medium-long term intangible effects (i.e. welfare losses), the latter that uncertainty and intergenerational equity issues play in favor of time-declining social discount rates”13. This approach agrees on the principle that very
long-term welfare losses have to be discounted at low rate in order to mitigate
the “tyranny of the present” effect. As a result, each damage component is discounted with a constant separate rate chosen from a menu of declining rates prescribed by the government. The choice of the rate is anchored to the damage
component duration.
The consistency of optimal growth and sustainable growth depends very
much on the relationship between the productivity of the resource base and the
social discount rate. The higher the discount rate, the more is sustainable development at risk from the deliberate planning of “optimal” growth. The lower the
discount rate, the less is the risk of “optimal extinction” for future generations.
In particular, discounting is consistent with the sustainable use of renewable resource as long as the discount rate does not exceed the regeneration rate of the
resource14.
Obviously, for a non-renewable resource, regeneration is zero and there is no
sustainable rate of consumption when the resource base consists solely of a
non-renewable resource in ixed supply. Discounting merely brings forward the
day when consumption falls to zero. Hence, the discount rate can have a profound
implications for sustainable development. Hotelling’s rule requires that resource
rents in an ef icient market will increase at the rate of exchange equal to the interest rate. This economic concept considers more profoundly economic ef iciency conditions and gives less attention to physical constraints and multiplied consequences of scarcity of the resource.
The choice of rapid-exploitation, slow-exploitation, or non-exploitation depends crucially on the discount rate. The discount rate re lects the long-term
pro itability of different investments. Sustainability objectives could thus be introduced into investment decisions by stipulating a “social” discount rate for the
use of environmental assets. The social discount rate would usually be lower
than the market one to ensure the availability of natural resources assets for future generations. However, the rate is dif icult to determine. Moreover, the normative (ethical) choice of low social discount rate for international and intergenerational equity takes a risk to be very discretionary. As a result, if it is not irmly
E. Defrancesco, P. Gatto, P. Rosato, A component based approach to discounting for natural
resource damage assessment, “Ecological Economics” 2014 no. 99, p. 1-9.
13 Ibidem, p. 7.
14 C. W. Clark, Mathematical bioeconomics, New York 1990.
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founded in the theory, it may raise even more objections and receive more negative opinions than the regular market discount rate.
While a range of discount rates is possible, growth theory suggests that the
social rate of return on investment is equal to the current social discount rate
expressed by the following formula: s = r + u·ĉ, and here: r – is the pure rate of
time preference (or rate of impatience, the rate at which future utility is discounted), u – is the elasticity of the marginal utility of consumption, ĉ – is the percentage rate of growth in per capita real consumption or its equivalent. It should be
stressed again that “r” may be based on the myopic notion of “pure” time preference, as well as the risk perception that future consumption will never take into
account.
The key point is that it may be misleading to choose discount rates without
assuming some consistent scenario. The main obstacle is that the social discount
rate needs empirical research and coef icients of elasticity of the marginal utility
of consumption. The second best solution is to agree that the social rate of discount is equal to the growth rate of real consumption per capita or its close equivalent. Familiar approach was applied to the calculation of future costs and beneits resulting from the climate change policy. In particular, the growth rate of
world GDP was supposed to indicate the global social discount rate.
Some recent studies suggested that it is inappropriate to use the same annual discount rate into the distant future. Weitzman (2001) argued that serious
uncertainties about future economic magnitudes imply smaller discount rates as
one imagines years deeper into the future15. Davidson published that zero discounting can compensate future generations for climate change16. In turn, Frederick et al. (2002) have published a survey of empirical evidence that tends to
undermine traditional time discounting altogether17.
It is worth mentioning that economists are not unanimous on the effect of
interest and discount rates on natural capital management, even when they are
sympathetic to the need to conserve natural capital. Some argue that although
high interest rates tend to encourage depletion of resources now and thus shift
ecological costs to the future, high rates also discourage investment in general,
since it costs too much to borrow money and few projects will earn a high enough
return to pay off loans or compete with leaving the money in the bank. Since
natural capital is necessary for investment, when investment is low, so is the demand for natural capital. Thus, Pearce and Turner conclude: “exactly how the
choice of discount rate impacts on the overall pro ile of natural resource and
environment use in any country is ambiguous”18.
“In the economists’ perfect world, the market discount rate and the discount
rate required for sustainability are brought into equilibrium, provided society
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M. L. Weitzman, Gamma discounting, “American Economic Review” 2001 no. 91, p. 260-271.
16 M. D. Davidson, Zero discounting can compensate future generations for climate change, “Eco-
logical Economics” 2014 no. 105, p. 40-47.
17 S. Frederick, G. Loewenstein, T. O’Donoghue, Time discounting and time preferences: a critical
review, “Journal of Economic Literature” 2002 no. 40, p. 351-401.
D. Pearce, R. Turner, Economics of natural resources and the environment, Baltimore 1990, p. 224.
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maximizes some inter temporal welfare function and is operating at the boundary of an inter temporal production possibility frontier. But there are many distortions that are likely to force market rates to be above the “true” marginal product
of capital. (…) This implies that the social discount rate will be below that produced by market forces”19.
These considerations suggest that sustainability can be more guaranteed if
the “true” value of marginal capital productivity could be determined and be
used as the actual discount rate, and if the economy is not heavily reliant upon
non-renewable resources. Ecological economists pay much attention to the principles of sustainable development. They argue that it would be better to build
sustainability into economic decisions by setting an a priori requirement that the
total stock of natural capital be left constant, regardless of the other bene its and
costs20. Certainly, sustainability criterion would suggest the discount rate differing from market discount rate.
Aiming to conclusions, it should be stressed that in business practice discount rates are set more or less equal to prevailing rates of interest and exponential discounting is most widely used. In contrast to this, hyperbolic discounting is
an alternative in a form of “slow discounting” such that the future is discounted
at a rate less than that implied by exponential discounting. It is worth mentioning
that stated preferences valuation techniques may be used to derive discount
rates21.
In general, discounting with market discount rates has extremely signi icant,
far reaching and negative consequences for all non-market goods. In particular,
a lot of environmental non-market goods, and ecosystem services, occur outside
the market and without legally con irmed ownership what implies overexploitation. Daly’s reservation concerning the distribution of bene its explains that using market discount rates for environmental non-market goods is not fair with
regard to the future generations.
Summarizing, it should be stressed that there is no a priori and correct way
to discount all future gains and losses. Sustainability concept opens new opportunities for discounting and there is both reason and room for maneuver in selecting discount rates. On the one hand, concerns such as those discussed above
prompt some environmentalists to urge use of low rates with projects entailing
large environmental impact. On the other hand, however, subjective and too
much relaxed choice of discount rate tends to be very discretionary, thus, a controversial and politicized process.
19 G. Atkinson et al., Measuring sustainable development. Macroeconomics and the environment,
Cheltenham 1997, p. 5.
20 Ph. Lawn (ed.), Sustainable development indicators in ecological economics, Cheltenham 2006.
21 I. J. Bateman et al., Economic valuation with stated preference techniques, Cheltenham 2002.
Conclusions
The strength of the economic valuation methods is that their concept of value
incorporates the relationship between humankind and ecosystem products.
However, the economic valuation methods also face severe dif iculties. Often they
do not adequately take account of the internal structure of ecosystems. Hence,
they neglect the ecological interdependencies of different ecosystem entities.
As many of the ecosystem services have public good properties, there is no simple way to imitate markets for these services. Therefore, there is also a place for
ecological valuation methods in physical units22.
Valuation of ecosystem services experience time factor in two ways. Firstly,
valuation is very speci ic with regard to timing of the study. Thus, assessed economic value has to be clearly identi ied by its contextual “label”. Role of this label
is to declare openly all details about the method used for valuation including information when the survey was conducted. Secondly, managed ecosystem services23 should be examined as streams of bene its. Thus, without anthropogenic
damages or natural turbulences ecosystem services will be delivered now and
will be delivered in the future. This feature has to be represented in economic
valuation and aggregated over time, especially in all attempts to valuate the natural capital.
Our human impatience and hedonic reasoning about the future will always
support decision on discounting but policy oriented on non-market environmental goods and public goods (e.g. sustainable development) can modify market
discount rates. However, the decision how the discount rate for ecosystem services should be de ined is not obvious and has not been made yet, thus, this issue
will require intensive research.
The ecological valuation methods are either based on an energy theory of value or on an
economic-ecological analogy. They are clari ied in: R. Winkler, Valuation of ecosystem goods
and services. Part I: An integrated dynamic approach, “Ecological Economics” 2006 no. 59, v. 1,
p. 82-93.
23 It seems to be both important and stimulating to develop discussion on dif iculties associated with the provision of ecosystem services. Because, “to understand the processes, it is necessary to clearly distinguish ecosystem functions, ecosystem service potential and ecosystem
services” (J. H. Spangenberg, Ch. von Haaren, J. Settele, The ecosystem service cascade: Further
developing the metaphor. Integrating societal processes to accommodate social processes and
planning, and the case of bioenergy, “Ecological Economics” 2014 no. 104, p. 31).
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ECOLOGICAL POLICY
AND ENVIRONMENTAL
MANAGEMENT
POLITYKA EKOLOGICZNA
I ZARZĄDZANIE ŚRODOWISKIEM
Marek Degórski • Jerzy Solon
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AS
A FACTOR STRENGTHENING
REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAJECTORY
Prof. Marek Degórski, Ph.D.
Prof. Jerzy Solon, Ph.D.
– Stanisław Leszczycki Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization
Polish Academy of Sciences
Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warsaw
ŚWIADCZENIA EKOSYSTEMOWE JAKO CZYNNIK WZMACNIANIA
TRAJEKTORII ROZWOJU REGIONU
STRESZCZENIE: Koncepcja świadczeń ekosystemowych i krajobrazowych jest obecnie szeroko dyskutowana w literaturze i ciągle pojawiają się mniej lub bardziej udane próby uwzględnienia koncepcji w działaniach praktycznych. Niestety wokół tego podejścia badawczego narosło wiele niejasności i nieporozumień, czego efektem jest
między innymi nieporównywalność proponowanych rozwiązań i raczej tylko postulatywny charakter planowania rozwoju regionów oparty na świadczeniach ekosystemowych. Celem artykułu jest próba odpowiedzi na kilka
podstawowych pytań dotyczących istoty świadczeń ekosystemów w kontekście aplikacyjnym.
SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: świadczenia ekosystemów, rozwój regionalny
Ecological Policy and Environmental Management
Introduction
In regional development, the natural environment is increasingly being perceived as a factor capable of generating development trajectories. These trajectories may locally become dense, forming so-called attractors occupying a region
referred to as the basin of attraction, which determines, among others, the viscosity of the region. One way to identify and then appraise the value of environmental potential that can in luence the direction of development of regions is by
analysing ecosystem services. They it with the latest concepts of environmental
management and environmental economics.
The concept of ecosystem and landscape services is currently being widely
discussed in the literature, with repeated attempts, more or less successful, to
incorporate this concept in practical action. Regrettably, this approach has accumulated a good deal of obscurity and misunderstanding, one of the consequences
being the existence of non-comparable solutions and some wishful thinking,
as opposed to detailed plans, in the planning of regional development based on
ecosystem services.
The present article sets out to address several basic questions regarding the
essence of the applicative dimension of ecosystem and landscape services in the
local scale.
Theoretical foundations of modelling
of reality vs. environmental resources
Spatial econometric models have been used with considerable success in the
work on regional analyses1. These models more and more often incorporate the
value of environmental resources2. Reality modelling is very often founded on the
theory of chaos and based on non-linear system dynamics. It originated within
the natural sciences, where it was observed that many interrelated elements inluence the outcome of natural processes under investigation. Computer simulations have similarly shown that identical data input to the same system of equations may generate different results even with small changes of the degree
of freedom. Thus, such procedures are founded on the theory of deterministic
W. Ratajczak, Modele ekonometrii przestrzennej w analizie regionalnej, in: T. Stryjakiewicz,
T. Czyż (eds.), O nowy kształt badań regionalnych w geogra ii i gospodarce przestrzennej, „Biuletyn Komitetu Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania Kraju Polskiej Akademii Nauk” 2008 no. 237,
p. 186-202.
2 M. Degórski, Quality of life and ecosystem services in rural-urban regions. Europa XXI, Warszawa 2012, p. 137-148.
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chaos, which de ines a property of equations or systems of equations consisting
in high sensitivity of the solutions to an in initesimally small disturbance of the
parameters describing dynamic systems. Thus, small differences in input data
generate a different series of solutions to non-linear equations. This property of
non-linear equations exposes the sensitivity of inal results to very small differences in initial conditions given a suf icient period, referred to as characteristic
time. Thus, the ampli ication of minor changes of the initial conditions over a suficiently long time may generate diametrically different outcomes3. In line with
this assumption, it can be assumed that environmental resources as a signi icant
element of sustainable development, barring substantial differences between
socio-economic determinants, may or may not exert the same in luence on
regional development. Many researchers have also observed that predictions regarding unstable systems in time will not easily produce reliable results4. Nonetheless, searching for attractors is an important research direction in many ields
of science. An attractor is a hidden, barely perceptible, ordering of a process. If an
attractor is known, predictions can be made and the course of processes can be
in luenced, including the development of regions or supraregional units.
Assuming, in line with the premises of Lorenz’s model5, an emerging order,
where a non-measurable and non-linear reality becomes comprehensible, it has
to be stated that the direction of regional development becomes predictable too.
Chaos transforms into order not only as described by the attractors of Lorenz or
Henon, but also as described by strange attractors, such as solions, bifurcations
or fractals, which can be regarded as mathematical models of the creation of order in nature.
Domański6 notes that the identi ication of attractors and their properties is a
dif icult mathematical problem. The dif iculty stems from the non-linearity of
systems of equations describing the behaviour of dynamic systems. For such systems, it is dif icult to analytically introduce the properties of equilibrium systems.
A characteristic trait of non-linear systems is the presence of simultaneous attractors7. Depending on the initial conditions and at given parameter values,
R. Domański, Przyczynek do modelowania rozwoju zrównoważonego w długim okresie, in: T. Stryjakiewicz, T. Czyż (eds.), O nowy kształt badań regionalnych w geogra ii i gospodarce przestrzennej, „Biuletyn Komitetu Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania Kraju Polskiej Akademii Nauk”
2008 no. 237, p. 203-224; M. Degórski, Wielofunkcyjność przestrzeni przyrodniczej szansą
zwiększenia potencjału rozwoju regionów poprzez grawitację atraktorów i wzrost lepkości,
in: Z. Strzelecki, P. Legutko-Kobus (eds.), Oblicza współczesnego kryzysu a polskie regiony, Warszawa 2010, p. 280-287.
4 K. Życzkowski, A. Łoziński, Chaos, fraktale oraz euroatraktor, „Foton 80” 2003, p. 4-9.
5 M. Waszczyk, Wpływ teorii chaosu na niektóre tradycyjne stanowiska ontologiczne oraz na spór
o redukcjonizm, „Zeszyty Naukowe Politechniki Gdańskiej. Filozo ia VI” 2002 no. 589, p. 1-15.
6 R. Domański, Przyczynek do modelowania rozwoju zrównoważonego w długim okresie, in: T. Stryjakiewicz, T. Czyż (eds.), O nowy kształt badań regionalnych w geogra ii i gospodarce przestrzennej, „Biuletyn Komitetu Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania Kraju Polskiej Akademii Nauk”
2008 no. 237, p. 203-224.
7 T. Kapitaniak, Niestabilne jak wahadło, “Academia” 2006 no. 3(7), p. 109-114; R. Domański,
op. cit.; M. Degórski, Are environment conditions among factors behind new spatial pattern, in:
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a non-linear system may evolve towards different attractors. One parameter of
importance for regional development comprises determinants related to environmental potential8 and social potential [Degórski 2012], construed as a generator of development, as well as those related to the system’s resilience to external
factors, such as those related to climatic change. This type of modelling is an ideal setting for the conception of ecosystem and landscape services. However, one
methodological problem arises, namely, that there is no unity in the understanding and de inition of ecosystem services as they are a conceptual entity.
The nature of ecosystem and landscape services
Even a brief review of the classic literature of the subject will reveal considerable chaos and variation in the scope of the concept of ecosystem services (Table 1).
As can be seen from the above listing of de initions, the term “ecosystem services” may refer to just about anything: from the physical goods produced by
ecosystems, to components of nature or functions, conditions and processes,
to the productive capacity of ecosystems. Against this background, the very general de initions proposed by TEEB, MEA and MAES seem to hold considerable
promise, but do so only at irst glance. According to these de initions, ecosystem
services comprise everything of bene it to humans. It should be stressed at this
point that such broad de initions allow for wholly subjective approaches to the
issue and actually only make the identi ication and valuing of services more dif icult.
In the light of our experiences to date, a sensible and effective application of
the conception of ecosystem services to practical action and the comparability of
the solutions suggested requires a sequence of at least four steps:
• providing much more precise de initions for individual terms and concepts;
• introducing appropriate procedures for the identi ication of services in speci ic areas and ecosystems;
• introducing appropriate standardised measures of services; and
• linking individual measures to practical activities, especially in the area of
spatial planning.
With this approach, economic appraisal (valuing) is secondary to and entails
directly from the adopted measures and indices de ining the supply of and demand for ecosystem services.
A. Kovacs (ed.), Old and new borderlines – frontiers – margins, Discussion Papers, Special Issue,
Pecs 2009, p. 29-39.
8 J. Glasson, Socio-economic impacts, in: Socio-economic impact assessment (SIA), London, New
York, 2000, p. 20-41; P. Morris, R. Therivel, Methods of environmental impact assessment, London, New York 2000; B. Degórska, M. Degórski, The environmental dimension of European
space according to the concept of trajectory, Europa XXI, Warszawa 2003, p. 37-44.
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Ta b l e 1
Different conceptualisations of ecosystem services
Ecosystem services – definition
a
b
c
d
e
f
Ecosystem attribute
Social perspective
The capacity of natural processes and components to
provide goods and services that satisfy human needs,
directly or indirectlya
the capacity … to
provide goods and
services
to satisfy human needs
The set of ecosystem functions that is useful to humansb
set of functions
useful to humans
Conditions and processes through which ecosystems
and species sustain and ful ill human lifec
conditions
and processes
to sustain and ful ill human life
A collective term for the goods and services produced
by ecosystems that bene it humankindd
goods and services
produced
bene it humankind
Components of nature, directly enjoyed, consumed
or used yield human well-beinge
components
of nature
enjoyed, consumed or used for
human well-being
The direct and indirect contributions of ecosystems
to human well-beingf
ecosystems
contributions to human
well-being
The bene its that people obtain from ecosystemsg
ecosystems
bene its to people
C. Kremen, Managing ecosystem services: what do we need to know about their ecology?, “Ecology Letters” 2005 no. 8,
p. 468-479.
G.C. Daily (ed.), Nature’s services: societal dependence on natural ecosystems, Washington D.C. 1997.
W.A. Jenkins, B.C. Murray, R.A. Kramer, S.P. Faulkner, Valuing eco-system services from wetlands restoration in the
Mississippi Alluvial Valley, “Ecological Economics” 2010 no. 69, p. 1051-1061.
J. Boyd, p. Banzhaf, What are ecosystem services? The need for standardized environmental accounting units, “Ecological Economics” 2007 no. 63, p. 616-626.
TEEB,The economics of ecosystems and biodiversity. Mainstreaming the economics of nature: a synthesis of the approach, conclusions and recommendations of TEEB, 2010; MAES, Mapping and assessment of ecosystems and their
services. An analytical framework for ecosystem assessments under Action 5 of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to
2020. Discussion paper – Final, European Union 2013.
MEA, Millennium ecosystem assessment, Ecosystems and human well-being, Summary for decision makers, Washington D.C. 2005; TEEB,The economics of ecosystems…, op. cit.; Mapping and assessment…, op. cit.
Source: authors’ own compilation based on different sources.
The above postulates are consistent with the list of tasks named by de Groot
et al.9, who state that the integration of ecosystem services into landscape planning, management and decision-making requires a detailed investigation of the
following topics:
• Understanding and quantifying how ecosystems provide services
• Valuing ecosystem services
• Use of ecosystem services in trade-off analysis and decision making
• Use of ecosystem services in Planning and Management
• Financing sustainable use of ecosystem services.
R. S. de Groot et al., Challenges in integrating the concept of ecosystem services and values in landscape planning, management and decision making, “Ecological Complexity” 2010 no. 7, p. 260-272.
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The quest for appropriate methodology
In the light of our experience to date, it appears clear that the methodologies
employed for identifying ecosystem services and then for determining their resources and value should match particular spatial scales and analytical objectives. Methodologies based mainly on assessing the value of biodiversity (TEEB)
or aiming to produce all-European comparison maps (MAES) are of no use for
analyses of individual administrative districts (Table 2). Furthermore, if automatically applied for regional and local spatial planning purposes, they may clearly
do more harm than good.
Tabl e 2
Place and role of ecosystem services in planning development
Scale
Importance
of ecosystem services
Detail level
Place of ecosystem services
Methodological platforms
for evaluation
Household
no
no
no
no
Local (e.g. village)
medium
high
landscape gardening,
planning of activities
lack of general approach
Subregional (e.g. commune)
high
high
spatial planning,
planning of activities
lack of general approach
Regional (e.g. province)
medium
medium
spatial planning
MAES (doubtful)
National
low
low
strategies, programs,
politics
TEEB, MAES
International
low
low
strategies, programs,
politics
TEEB, MAES
Of particular importance for practical applications, especially at the level of
regional and subregional analyses, is conceptual precision and identi ication of
the spatial extension of validity of individual concepts. In particular, the following
should be determined:
(a) The provider of service – is it a speci ic narrowly-de ined ecosystem, an ecosystem type not tied to a speci ic spatial location, a demarcated fragment
of the Earth’s surface that supports a diversity of ecosystems, or, inally, “nature” in general, whose territorial extension cannot be speci ied unambiguously;
(b) The natural resource (that is, an existing resource/state of the service provider) and its resultant natural potential (de ining the service-providing capacity, which is determined not only by resource size, but also by other factors, such as ease of access). It is the potential rather than the resource that
in luences the potential and actual supply of ecosystem services.
provisioning
provisioning
provisioning
provisioning
provisioning
Cereal production
Cereal production
Honey
Water supply
Water supply
provisioning
Game
provisioning
provisioning
Mushrooms
provisioning
provisioning
Mushrooms
Game
provisioning
Timber
Game
provisioning
Category
of ecosystem
service
Timber
Ecosystem
Service
name
[piece]
[piece]
[piece]
the number of intakes in
lakes and rivers
number of groundwater
intakes
[ton] or [ton/ha]
number of hives
cereal yields
[sum (soil class * area)]
sown area
(with respect to soil class)
[piece]
[Kg]
game weight
number of hunting permits
[piece]
[Ton]
mushrooms gathered at,
delivery points
population of wild game
[ha]
area of mixed
and coniferous forests
indirect
indirect
indirect
direct
indirect
direct
indirect
indirect
indirect
indirect
direct
[m3]
or [m3/ha]
direct /
indirect
indirect
formula / unit
[m3]
or [m3/ha]
Indicator
sales of timber by auction
standing timber stock
Tab l e 3
Sample detailed indices of selected ecosystem services
supply
supply
supply / low
low
potential supply
low
demand
potential supply
low
potential supply
low
potential supply
supply / flow / demand
Type of indicator
municipality or village
municipality, village
or single ield
municipality, village
or single ield
hunting circuit
hunting circuit
hunting circuit
village
ecosystem
forest district
forest district
Service provider
(reference unit)
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provisioning
provisioning
regulating
regulating
regulating
regulating
supporting
supporting
supporting
supporting
Water supply
Water supply
Parasites and pathogens
Pollination
Water quality
Water quality
Biodiversity
Biodiversity
Biodiversity
Biodiversity
indirect
indirect
indirect
indirect
number of plant species
ield fragmentation/ length
of ield margins
number of nests of white
storks
conservation status of habitats N2000
indirect
land cover pattern in the
catchment
indirect
direct
[% of area] or [km2/km2]
share of habitats good for
pollinators
indirect
indirect
direct
direct
chemical composition at the
outlet of the catchment
[% of area] or
share of linear and other
small habitats
[km2/km2]
[piece]
[m3/year]
the amount of water
abstracted from groundwater
number of operated wells
[m3/year]
the amount of water taken
from lakes and rivers
provisioning
Water supply
low
low
low
low
low
low
low
low
low
low
low
ecosystem
landscape
landscape
ecosystem
catchment
catchment
landscape
landscape
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(c) The potential and actual supply of services, which depends not only on the
potential, but also on the needs and other conditions, including formal and
legal ones. The separation of these categories is important insofar as the size
of each of them can be determined using different indices (direct and surrogate) that are not wholly mutually exchangeable;
(d) The recipient of services (an individual or a social group), the demand for
services, the preferences and needs hierarchy.
Only such de ined conceptual framework will make it possible to unambiguously specify the size of services actually provided (as relations/ transactions
between the provider and the recipient).
Only within relations so de ined is it possible to juxtapose the measures and
indices relating to the quantity of services available. It is also important to distinguish indices of supply and demand and direct vs. indirect indices, as exempli ied
in table 3.
Service-related information as a tool supporting
regional development
Appropriately collected and processed information on ecosystem services
can be used to strengthen the trajectory of regional development. Importantly,
it is not service resources as such, but service-related information and ideas on
how to utilise these resources that is conducive to development. Otherwise, the
state of the natural environment (including potential ecosystem services) may be
seen as a barrier to development, examples of which can often be witnessed, especially in areas occupied by national parks and large-area refuges within the
Natura 2000 network.
Any deliberations and plans for the utilisation and ampli ication of the supply of ecosystem services should, however, take into account the fact that it is
principally impossible to maximise all services and, consequently, it is necessary
to choose a selection of objectives and ways to use them, taking into account societal preferences and inancial possibilities. On the other hand, there is also the
danger of fetishisation of particular services (for example, the regulatory role of
biodiversity). A preference for such services at the local level may cause a marked
reduction in the supply of other services that are considered locally more important and more valuable.
Conclusion
Preliminary data indicate that the use of well-de ined concepts and appropriate measures/indices facilitates discussion with local communities, which constitutes an important precondition for the effective implementation of the participatory approach in planning. Planning is to be understood broadly in this context, embracing both classic spatial planning, the result of which is the local landuse plan, as well as conservation plans for protected areas (national parks and
Natura 2000 zones).
The issue of scale of analyses and their measurability remains an open question for future research. Reality modelling efforts, i.e. works in the realm of spatial planning, will bene it from clearly de ining the area of interest for measurable
(empirical) and non-measurable (complementary) research. Providing precise
de initions may be decisive for the success of ecosystem services in spatial management.
Analysis of these issues constitutes the topic of the research project “Ecosystem services in a young
glacial landscape – an assessment of resources, threats and use”, funded by the National Science
Centre (NCN) and carried out by a team of researchers from the Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of Geography and Spatial Organisation (ST10/04344).
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Józefa Famielec
BENEFITS FROM ECOSYSTEM SERVICES VERSUS
MEASURES OF SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Prof. Józefa Famielec, Ph. D. – Cracow University of Economics
Department of Industrial and Environmental Policy
Rakowicka 27, 31-510 Krakow
KORZYŚCI Z USŁUG ŚRODOWISKA A MIERNIKI ROZWOJU
SPOŁECZNO-GOSPODARCZEGO
STRESZCZENIE: Świadczenia ekosystemów, określane także mianem usług środowiska, są już uznaną kategorią.
Ma ona interdyscyplinarny charakter. Nadal brakuje metodologicznych podstaw ich identyfikacji oraz opisu. Ekonomistów interesuje przede wszystkim wartościowanie świadczeń ekosystemów, co nie zawsze jest możliwe, choćby
dlatego, że wiele z nich nie jest jeszcze zidentyfikowane. Ponadto nauka nie wypracowała jeszcze wielu funkcji użyteczności tych świadczeń. W opracowaniu podjęto próbę skojarzenia usług środowiska z wartością dostarczanych
przez nich korzyści. W literaturze spotyka się już liczne próby wartościowania tych korzyści, w ujęciu pieniężnym na
realnych rynkach lub też na rynkach warunkowych. Autorka podejmuje próbę skojarzenia wartości korzyści świadczeń ekosystemów ze znanymi już miernikami rozwoju społecznego-gospodarczego. Są to: produkt krajowy brutto,
wskaźnik rozwoju społecznego, oszczędności netto. Rozważania są prowadzone na gruncie filozoficznej koncepcji
pomiaru.
SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: usługi środowiska, korzyści usług środowiska, kategorie korzyści usług środowiska, kryteria
wartości funkcji usług środowiska, metody i techniki pomiaru korzyści usług środowiska
Introduction
Ecosystem services are an underestimated factor of production and socioeconomic development. Economic science, with the help of natural science, deals
increasingly with the issue of pollution and its impact on the present state and
damage to ecosystems. The new, interdisciplinary approach that is developed
particularly within regular Ecoserv Conferences, seeks for the valuation principles of ecosystem services by means of organizing interdisciplinary discussion
panels and publishing their indings.
It is assumed in the paper that the valuation of the ecosystem services in
a monetary form is impossible and irrelevant although there are attempts to valuate such objects as forests or national parks. In such cases the commercial aspect is signi icant. Values are established for the sake of selling goods that are
associated with the depreciation of ecosystem services or when there is a necessity to pay for a private or public access to such services. However, all ecosystem
services cannot be valuated for the simple reason that many of them have not
been identi ied yet and science has not established their utility functions, which
is the condition for the determination of their effects/bene its.
However, economics should make attempts to determine the causative force
of ecosystem services in manufacturing and consumption processes which play
a decisive role in socioeconomic development. At present, such valuations concern
mainly the role of natural resources and the hazards related to their exhaustibility. Consequently, a numerous group of other services that are signi icant to human processes and industry (e.g. photosynthesis) has not been valuated yet.
The valuation of ecosystem services cannot be conducted autonomously.
In her previous paper, the author discussed the thesis that the value of ecosystem
services should be distinguished from the structure of processes, resources and
their development that are measured by GDP1.
A further research on that concept turned the author’s attention to the issue
of measurement in general. A question was raised whether the hitherto measurement methodology of socioeconomic development can constitute the basis for
the assessment of the value and signi icance of ecosystem services to socioeconomic changes. The attempt to answer that question was preceded by the justi ication of a new methodological assumption. The author considers the category of
the value ecosystem services as a mental shortcut. Ecosytem services are described by natural processes that converse matter, energy and space, which is
already an accepted approach to the way they are de ined2. Thus, such processes
J. Famielec, Ecosystem services as part of the Gross Domestic Product account, „Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2012 no. 2, p. 39-53.
2 Cf. among other sources: R. Costanza, Ecosystem functions and services, „Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2012 no. 2, p. 9-17; A. Mizgajski, Świadczenia ekosystemów jako rozwijające się pole
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cannot be subject to valuation, especially in a monetary approach, as it is neither
possible nor purposeful. However, valuation should and can be applied to the
economic and social effects that are added to economy and society by the services in question. Consequently, the term bene its from ecosystem services is used in
the paper and its title in order to de ine precisely the object of valuation and assessment. What is more, an attempt is made to analyze that term on the grounds
of the concept of value measurement. A model to measure the bene its from ecosystem services was built and the examples of value categories, value measurements and methods/techniques of measuring the bene its are de ined and presented. The author points at an indirect connection between the elements of the
suggested measurement model and the selected development measures, particularly the GDP, SDI and total net savings. None of the measures of economic and
social development meets completely the requirements for measuring the beneits from ecosystem services.
The concept of ecosystem services
Having considered several de initions, the author accepted the one that deines ecosystem/environmental services as natural processes that are realized by
geophysical forces and living organisms which transform matter, energy, information and space with a bene icial effect on the processes of management and
sustainable growth3. That de inition makes it possible to recognize the subjects
of ecosystem services as lows of materials, energy and information from natural
capital stocks which combine with the services of the manufactured capital to
produce human welfare4.
Systematization and classi ication of ecosystem services varies. Costanza identi ies 18 types of ecosystems (biomes) and 17 groups of ecosystem services which,
however, do not share one common criterion. The criteria include climate regulation, water regulation, erosion control, soil formation, etc. In the case of other type
of services the criteria include raw materials, genetic resources, food production5.
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment6 methodology distinguishes four categories of ecosystem services7:
• provisioning (e.g. food, potable water);
• regulating (e.g. climate regulation, water regulation, disease regulation);
• cultural (educational values, social relationships, cultural heritage);
badawcze i aplikacyjne, „Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2010 no. 1, p. 10-19; A. Michałowski, Ekonomiczne podstawy usług środowiska, „Optimum. Studia Ekonomiczne” 2011 no. 6, p. 105-120.
3 Ibidem.
4 R. Costanza et al., The value of the world’s ecosystem serviuces and natural capital, “Nature“
1997 no. 387, p. 254.
5 Ibidem, p. 254.
6 The Millennium ecosystem assessment. Ecosystems and human well-being: Synthesis, Washington D.C. 2005.
7 Ibidem, p. 40.
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supporting (e.g. photosynthesis, biochemical cycles).
Michałowski distinguishes four groups of ecosystem services8:
• material – processes conversing the matter, e.g. the production of biomass or
waste decomposition;
• energy – processes conversing energy, e..g. the accumulation of solar energy
in the tissue of living organisms and the supply of energy from the Earth’s
interior;
• information – processing information, e.g. scienti ic and artistic inspiration,
landscapes and the beauty of nature, genetic information;
• spatial– processes conversing space, e.g. site preparation for housing and
reclamation of land destroyed by human activity, land;
• stabilizing – processes maintaining a dynamic balance of the ecological conditions for the conversion of mater, energy, information and space.
That division of ecosystem services refers to the type of consequences/effects of the services and their substance that may be associated with the production and consumption growth factors.
In the course of their work on updating the System for Environmental Flow
Analysis SEFA), the European Environment Agency (EEA) initiated the development of the Common International Classi ication of Ecosystem Services (CICES),
where provisioning, regulating and cultural services are distinguished. The supporting services, which in other classi ications play a fundamental role, are not
listed. CICES employs a hierarchical structure as follows:
• theme, e.g. provisioning,
• class, e.g. nutrition,
• group, e.g. terrestrial plant and animal foodstuffs
• type, e.g. grains,
• sub-type, e.g. wheat.
The usefulness of such classi ications – although some categories recur – is
not complete. They are not suf icient in the valuation of ecosystem bene its as
they do not make it possible to distinguish the object of the services and the value
of their function (purpose) is even more dif icult to assess.
Measurement and measures
Ideas concerning the theory of measurement should be searched in philosophy and logics. One should refer to K. Ajdukiewicz, who states that measurement
constitutes the next type of quantitative observation after counting. According to
K. Ajdukiewicz, measurement is the designation of numerical measures to the
objects being measured as well as to their speci ic features9. In 1950 he wrote
8 A. Michałowski, Usługi środowiska w badaniach ekonomiczno-ekologicznych, „Ekonomia i Śro-
dowisko” 2013, no. 1 and A. Michałowski, Efektywność gospodarowania w świetle usług środowiska, „Optimum. Studia Ekonomiczne” 2012, no. 1, p. 99-118.
9 K. Ajdukiewicz, Logika pragmatyczna, Warszawa 1975, p. 232.
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that “measurement alone requires some manipulation. However, once the manipulative treatment is done to the objects and they are assigned certain numbers,
the discovery of numerous relations between them is made possible… Mapping
objects to numbers enables us to apply the powerful instruments of mathematics
to study relations between objects …”10.
Later, R.L. will state that “there is no common agreement among scholars and
philosophers as regards what measurement is and how it should be performed.
The existing viewpoints range from extremely narrow to very general”11.
Varied approaches to measurement result in the following categories12:
• measurement as any scienti ic experiment or observation. i.e. any acquisition
of data;
• measurement as a set of operations required to de ine measurement results;
• measurement as a procedure closely related to scienti ic de inition;
• measurement as the assignment of igures to objects, events and features;
• measurement perceived through axiomatic and philosophical consequences;
• measurement with the application of a mathematical model concept.
The measurement model makes it possible to standardize measurement procedures and to distinguish various measurement methods in accordance with
them. The methods vary as regards the procedures, the structure of the measurement system and the algorithm for determining the measurement results13.
From the comparatively sophisticated theory of measurement one can draw
several practical conclusions that are signi icant as regards the valuation of ecosystem bene its.
Measurement requires the determination of its domain, i.e. the selection of the
objects to be measured and their features. Consequently, the answer will be obtained whether they are measurable. Objects can be measured if they can be scaled.
Scaling is an operation that in a homomorphic way represents the ordering relation
of a set of objects with speci ic features by a majority relation between igures.
The selection of the measurement domain involves signi icant issues14:
• variability of the measurement range;
• changes in the range of measurable and non-measurable values;
• changes in the measurability criteria;
• the scale of the objects of measurement.
The variability of the measurement range may be caused by the evolution of
measurement techniques, the expansion of the measurement domain by objects
that have not been measured or been measurable so far and by the extrapolation
of measurement methods and techniques from one ield of study to another.
K. Ajdukiewicz, Propedeutyka ilozo ii, Wrocław-Warszawa 1950, p. 12.
R.L. Ackoff, S.K. Gupta, J.S. Minas, Decyzje optymalne w badaniach stosowanych, Warszawa
1969, p. 244.
12 Author owes this and other approaches to de ining and learning about measurement to
a dif icult, yet extremely valuable publication of R.M. Olejnik, O pomiarze. Pomiar i mierzenie
– koncepcja Kazimierza Ajdukiewicza i jej krytyka, Częstochowa 1998, p. 15-22.
13 H. Szydłowski (ed.), Teoria pomiaru, Warszawa 1978, p. 207.
14 R.M. Olejnik, op. cit., p. 66-67.
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A particular role is played by measurement as such. It is a cognitive operation
that makes it possible to ind a numerical measure of the value under investigation in selected measurement units15. There are two types of measurement: direct and indirect.
Direct measurement is the determination of the magnitude of an object by
means of comparing it with a standard model in order to determine the unit of
measure. Objects are subject to direct measurement on the condition that they
commensurate with the measure unit.
Indirect measurement can be applied to objects as regards their particular properties or it is based on the analysis of other related or derived properties It is applicable in relation to values that can be measured only implicitly and to values whose
direct measurement is practically impossible (e.g. astronomy measurements).
Measurement requires the application of a measurement function that signiies an unambiguous relation, which makes it possible to describe every property
by a positive real number.
Measurement requires ordering. The ordering of the elements of measurement implies setting the elements of each set in accordance with certain relations (criteria) that are attributed to them.
The ordering process is associated with numbering or placing the elements
in a particular order. Therefore relevant and coherent classi ication of objects
under measurement is essential. Classi ication should result from the structure
of elements (e.g. the graph theory) that is generated by a particular type of ordering.
Measurement requires the application of de ined principles. They include:
• de inition of the measurement – what is measured and how?
• determination of formal properties – what types of mathematical and statistical operations on the measurement results are acceptable?
• determination of the degree of accuracy – how can the measurement results
be adjusted to conditions that are less ideal than the ones determined by
de initions?
• determination of the measurement control method – i.e. the method of ensuring the degree of measurement accuracy.
In the course of measurement procedures errors are inevitable and their value should be estimated. The sources of measurement errors are as follows:
• observer,
• measurement instruments applied,
• environment,
• object (process) under observation.
Each type of errors should be analyzed separately. Measurement error may
result from logical, methodological and philosophical determinants. They include16:
• conventionalism – terminological conventions used in scienti ic methods;
• operationalism – the empirical sense of a notion in science;
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R.M. Olejnik, op. cit., p. 145-147.
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methodological idealization – mental procedure, construction of abstract
concepts.
Methodological idealization, which frequently occurs in measurement procedures, is particularly dangerous. In order to grasp the most signi icant relations
between factors, less important factors are ignored. That often takes place as regards the idealization of nature. The exclusion of some measurable aspects of
nature results in erroneous assessments, including value measurements. When
investigating socioeconomic development, researchers usually focus on technical
aspects of measurement such as the choice of econometric models and on the
stochastic processing of the measurement results. Processes in natural environment and their impact on humans and economy are ignored although there are
numerous empirical investigations of natural scientists which could be applied to
expand the models and functions of socioeconomic development by – for example – data concerning the boundaries and barriers of ecosystems.
The differences in opinions on the sources of CO2 emission can serve as
a good example. The causes of the climate change on the Earth are the subject of
extensive investigations. Subsequent reports of international organizations such
as IPCC, NAS and G8 state that the majority of temperature changes in the last
50 years can be attributed to human activity, i.e. to the anthropogenic effects.
Such arguments are indiscriminately used by legislators of ecological regulations,
especially in the area of international law on environmental protection, and by
people who design remedial measures constituting international commitments
for particular countries. However, there are many other investigations and hypotheses that point at natural factors as the main cause of the climate change.
According to one hypothesis concerning the greenhouse effect, for example, the
direct effect of the absorption of Earth radiation by carbon dioxide is insigni icant and only the secondary effects associated with the increased amount of water vapor in the atmosphere – due to the higher temperature of the troposphere
– may cause changes in the cloud cover and consequently result in substantial
signi icant climate change17. That does not change the fact that the targets of the
greenhouse gas reduction in the UE climate and energy policy became obligatory
for EU members without the consideration of the above18.
Author’s mesurement model of benefits from ecosystem services19
In the measurment theory of K. Ajdukiewicz, which was applied and modiied by R.M. Olejnik, the methodology of measurement is composed of the following elements:
T.T. Kaczmarek, Globalna gospodarka i globalny kryzys, Warszawa 2009, p. 101-107.
That is proved by teh investigation run for the Ph.D. thesis supervised by the Author and
published in: K. Cięciak, Skuteczność ekologiczna polityki energetycznej Unii Europejskiej
w Polsce, Kraków 2013.
19 Author’s research based on: R.M. Olejnik, op. cit.; J. Famielec, Straty i korzyści ekologiczne
w gospodarce narodowej, Warszawa-Kraków 1999.
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the selection of value category;
the selection of value measure for a given value category;
the determination of the measurement method/s (techniques).
The above elements are given in tables 1, 2 and 3.
The „value” category is most frequently associated with the monetary expression of a given object, phenomenon or process. However, the measurement
process is concerned with the determination of preferences, the philosophical
signi icance of value, the signi icance of work and the attitude to other human
being and to the group not only now but also in the future. Ecosystem services
may constitute the essence or the condition for the development or preservation
of a particular value. The utility value is the most commonly used value category
in economics and it can also by applied in reference to the bene its of ecosystem
services. Among the bene its from ecosystem services, the heritage value i.e. the
sustained ability of ecosystems to bring bene its in the future is gaining in significance. The total economic value is the result of economic operations of a country,
including the measurable bene its from ecosystem services – as production (e.g.
the value of raw materials used) or quality of life factors (e.g. the quality of housing industry or health care infrastructure – Table 1). Thus, some categories of
bene its from ecosystem services are categories of both economic and social values as well as of their basic measures20.
Value categories can be expressed by different measures (Table 2). “Economic values are re lected best by prices on the market”21. The bene its from ecosystem
services are frequently exploited outside the market and are not subject to competitive operations. There are no market prices for them and, consequently, other
measures have to be considered. Most frequently it is the inclination to pay or
willingness to accept compensations that can be assessed on mortgage markets.
An interesting concept of value measure as such, including the bene its from ecosystem services, is their energy value. Traditional growth factors are expressed in
units of energy or the work performed by products/services. However, it is still
a challenging research task. In order to measure the bene its from ecosystem services, the following measures can be adapted: producer’s surplus, consumer’s
surplus and economic implications.
The estimation (valuation) of bene its from ecosystem services for selected
value categories – with adequately selected measures – can be performed by various methods/techniques. In table 3 they are referred to as valuation methods of
T. Żylicz distinguishes total economic value that includes utility and non-utility values.
Non-utility value is often divided into existence and heritage values. The former is attributed
to the mere existence of the value,while the latter refers to the value that is passed to next
generations; T. Żylicz, Wycena usług ekosystemów. Przegląd wyników badań światowych,
„Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2010 no. 1(37), p. 33-34. Then, apart from the types of economic
values, T. Żylicz discusses valuation techniques. The Author adds an intermediate stage – a selection of the measures of particular value categories of bene its from ecosystem services followed by a selection of calculation techniques.
21 T. Żylicz, Wycena usług ekosystemów. Przegląd wyników badań światowych, „Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2010 no. 1, p. 35.
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Tab l e 1
Value categories of ecosystem values and their relation to the measures of socio-economic
development
Value category
Measure of socio-economic development
Direct utility value
HDI
Indirect utility value
HDI
Non-utility value
HDI
Existence and heritage value
TNS
Total economic value
GDP
HDI –Human Development Index
TNS – Total Net Savings
GDP – Gross Domestic Product
Source: author’s research.
Tab l e 2
Measures of benefits from ecosystem services
Measure category of benefits
Willingness to pay
Willingness to akcept compensation
Consumer’s surplus
TNS, HDI
Producer’s surplus
TNS, HDI
Economic implications
GDP
Energy value
Tab l e 3
Valuation methods (techniques) of benefits from ecosystem services
Type of method/technique
Cost and bene it analysis
Cost minimisation
Valuation of production results
GDP
Valuation of production effort and restitution costs
GDP
Human capital valuation
HDI
Hedonic methods
HDI
Travel costs method
Declared preferences method
Household production function
Value transfer method
GDP
bene its from ecosystem services. At that stage, the monetary dimension of value
is signi icant as it can be compared to the value of other bene its from services
(e.g. from transport services). Some of such techniques are also applied in the
monetary assessment of the effects of socioeconomic development.
The valuation techniques of economic values, including the value of ecosystem services, can be divided in direct and indirect ones22. Direct methods, e.g. the
assessment of utility and production value, are usually applied by real markets,
while indirect methods such as the travel cost method or the declared preferences method, require hypothetical markets.
Conclusions
The search for the bene its from ecosystem services is mainly cognitive in
character. Undoubtedly, the services have an impact on production, consumption
and investment, i.e. all the aspects that are associated with growth, economic
development or prosperity. However, there is no direct connection between those
categories. That is because services are natural processes that are not always
material, cannot be identi ied and, which is most important, their in luence on
production, consumption and – irst of all – people’s lives is unknown. The beneits from ecosystem services should be assigned some value.
However, there is a danger in the commercial attitude to bene its and their
value, just like to the development and prosperity in general. Value systems that
should bene it from development must be reconsidered. Excessive economization and inancialization of economy and development are the processes that one
should be warned of. Basic mistakes are made as regards the measurement of
economic growth and prosperity23.
It is not the objective of the measurement of bene its from ecosystem services to estimate their market price or to ind out how much one can earn on them
as many of them cannot be the object of market operations and, consequently,
they are priceless. The point is in establishing their role in people’s lives and
economy and in the responsibility for their condition now and in the future. First
of all, the responsibility consists in – for example – protecting forests against excessive exploitation that takes place for the sake of current income of states and
companies and results in the extinction of several rare ecosystems. The assessment of socioeconomic development only through the GDP growth, the material
welfare development or even the improvement of the quality of life results in the
loss of numerous signi icant bene its from ecosystem services. Moreover, the
protection and preventive measures as regards ecosystems may remain underestimated.
More in: T. Żylicz, op. cit., p. 35-39.
Which is proved by: J.E. Stiglitz, A. Sen, J.P. Fituossi, Błąd pomiaru. Dlaczego PKB nie wystarcza?, Warszawa 2013.
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Krzysztof Mączka • Piotr Matczak
IS THE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES CONCEPT
USEFUL IN POLISH POLICY MAKING?
QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS
OF EXPERTS PERCEPTION
Krzysztof Mączka, M.Sc.
Assoc. Prof. Piotr Matczak, Ph. D.
Institute of Sociology
Szamarzewskiego 89c, 60-568 Poznan
CZY USŁUGI EKOSYSTEMOWE SĄ UŻYTECZNE
W TWORZENIU POLSKICH POLITYK PUBLICZNYCH?
JAKOŚCIOWA ANALIZA PERCEPCJI EKSPERTÓW
STRESZCZENIE: Koncepcja usług ekosystemowych jest coraz szerzej stosowana zarówno w badaniach naukowych, jak i konstruowaniu polityk publicznych, także w Polsce. W niniejszym artykule przedstawiono wyniki indywidualnych pogłębionych wywiadów eksperckich ze specjalistami z zakresu ochrony przyrody. Na podstawie
wywiadów zidentyfikowano przyczyny ograniczonej obecności koncepcji usług ekosystemowych
w polskich politykach publicznych, został oceniony potencjał tej koncepcji w stosunku do różnych sektorów
gospodarki, a także wskazano pozytywne i negatywne konsekwencje mogące wynikać z jej praktycznego stosowania.
SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: usługi ekosystemowe, polityki publiczne, eksperci, wywiady
Introduction
The concept of ecosystem services has been increasingly applied in biodiversity research and policies all over the world1. As Norgaard2 pointed out, the concept of ecosystem services started as a humble metaphor which could help us to
think about the relation between people and nature, but eventually it became
integral to what we thought about the future of humanity and biological evolution. It enables us to describe and to analyse the relations between people and
the environment3 and involves some novel, incentive-based conservation strategies4. The approach presumes that nature provides services which are bene icial
for human societies, allows for economic valuation of particular ecosystem services and contributes to the new conservation debate5. Within the debate, the
traditional nature conservation approach, which disregards the losses to human
societies, is challenged. The ecosystem services approach is treated in this debate
as a framework offering possibilities for negotiating costs and bene its of conservation6. It may offer guidelines for improving conservation and human welfare
via win-win solutions7. Nevertheless, it is also criticized as it could be misleading
in conservation efforts because of its narrow economic orientation towards
nature as a stock, which may lead to commodity fetishism8.
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1997 no. 387, p. 253-260; The millenium ecosystem assesement, ecosystems and human well-being: a framework for assessment, www.cices.eu [12-09-2014]; see also: TEEB, The economics of
ecosystems and biodiversity for local and regional policy makers, www.teebweb.org [12-092014]; R. Haines-Young, M. Potschin, Common international classi ication of ecosystem services
(CICES): Consultation on version 4, August-December 2012, www.cices.eu [12-09-2014];
P. Lamarque, F. Quetier, p. Lavorel, The diversity of the ecosystem services concept and its implications for their assessment and management, “Comptes Rendus Biologies” 2011 no. 334,
p. 441-449.
2 R. B. Norgaard, Ecosystem services: From eye-opening metaphor to complexity blinder, “Ecological Economics” 2010 no. 6(69), p. 1219-1227.
3 R. S. de Groot, M. A. Wilson, R. M. J. Boumans, A typology for the classification, description and
valuation of ecosystem functions, goods and services, “Ecological Economics” 2002 no. 41(3),
p. 393-408; E. Gómez-Baggethun; D. N. Barton, Classifying and valuing ecosystem services for
urban planning, “Ecological Economics” 2013 no. 86, p. 235-245.
4 J. Paavola, K. Hubacek, Ecosystem services, governance, and stakeholder participation: an introduction, “Ecology and Society” 2013 no. 18.
5 B. A. Minteer, T. R. Miller, The New Conservation Debate: ethical foundations, strategic tradeoffs, and policy opportunities, “Biological Conservation” 2011 no. 144, p. 945-947.
6 T. O. McShane et al., Hard choices. Making trade-offs between biodiversity conservation and
human well-being, “Biological Conservation” 2011 no. 144, p. 966-972.
7 S. C. Farber, R. Costanza, M. A. Wilson, Economic and ecological concepts for valuing ecosystem
services, “Ecological Economics” 2002 no. 3 (41), p. 375-392.
8 N. Kosoy, E. Corbera, Payments for ecosystem services as commodity fetishism, “Ecological Economics” 2010 no. 6(69), p. 1228-1236.
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Although signi icant progress has been made in the assessment frameworks
of ecosystem services, there is still work to be done9, e.g. development of frameworks that would allow the transition of a scienti ic concept into a rationale of
policy making10. De Groot et al.11 found ive groups of challenges and obstacles
that need to be addressed in order to fully utilize the concept: (a) Understanding
and quantifying how ecosystems provide services; (b) Valuing ecosystem services; (c) Using ecosystem services in a trade-off analysis and decision; (d) Using
ecosystem services in planning and management; (e) Financing sustainable use
of ecosystem services. The concept is more often perceived as help rather than
hindrance as it addresses some current problems of the environmental assessment practice12. Yet, some very basic issues, such as a clear and consistent de inition to avoid misrepresentations, which could undermine the credibility of the
ecosystem services concept, have not been solved. Nevertheless, the implementation of the concept needs to be context speci ic, used on a case-by-case basis,
and take into account both bene its and limitations. It is necessary to put more
emphasis on the analysis of ecosystem functionality, structural and functional
linkages within ecosystem services and determinants of human well-being, and
to integrate ecosystem services into conventional development policies and priorities from their conception to their execution13.
In Poland, the concept began to be used in scienti ic research in the 2000s14.
Yet, in legal and legislative documents, the concept has been barely presented so
G. Yapp, J. Walker, R. Thackway, Linking vegetation type and condition to ecosystem goods and
services, “Ecological Complexity” 2010 no. 3(7), p. 292-301.
10 K. Helming, K. Diehl, D. Geneletti, H. Wiggering, Mainstreaming ecosystem services in european
policy impact assessment, “Environmental Impact Assessment Review” 2013 no. 40, p. 82-87.
11 R. S. de Groot et al., Challenges in integrating the concept of ecosystem services and values in
landscape planning, management and decision making, “Ecological Complexity” 2010 no. 3(7),
p. 260-272.
12 P. Lamarque et al., op. cit.; A. Nahlik, M. E. Kentula, M Siobhan Fennessy, Where is the consensus? A proposed foundation for moving ecosystem service concepts into practice, “Ecological
Economics” 2012 no. 77, p. 27-35.
13 G. C. Daily, P. A. Matson, Ecosystem services: From theory to implementation, “Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences” 2008 no. 28(105), p. 9455-9456; see also: D. Ervin, et al.,
Growing cities depend on ecosystem services, “Solutions” 2012 no. 6, p. 74-86; J. Baker, W. R.
Sheate, Ecosystem services in environmental assessment. Help or hindrance?, “Environmental
Impact Assessment Review” 2013 no. 40, p. 3-13; M. Kandziora, B. Burkhard; F. Müller, Interactions of ecosystem properties, ecosystem integrity and ecosystem service indicators. A theoretical matrix exercise, “Ecological Indicators” 2013 no. 28, p. 54-78; P. Kumar, S. E. Esen, M. Yashiro, Linking ecosystem services to strategic environmental assessment in development policies,
“Environmental Impact Assessment Review” 2013 no. 40, p. 75-81.
14 A. Mizgajski, Ecosystem services as an emerging ield of research and application, “Ekonomia
i Środowisko” 2010 no. 1(37), p. 10-19; T. Żylicz, Valuation of ecosystem services. An overview
of world research, “Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2010 no. 1(37), p. 31-45; see also: Z. Rosin et al.,
Ecosystem services as an ef icient tool of nature conservation: a view from the Polish farmland,
“Chrońmy Przyrodę Ojczystą” 2011 no. 1(67), p. 3-20; J. Kronenberg, et al., The importance of
White Stork Ciconia ciconia for society: an analysis from the perspective of ecosystem services,
„Chrońmy Przyrodę Ojczystą” 2013 no. 3(69), p. 179-203.
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far15. Our previous study16 showed that the scope of ecosystem services implementation in the Polish legislation and policy documents is limited. However, the
reason for this weak implementation of the concept is still unidenti ied.
Aim of the research
The study aims to explore the potential for a practical use of the ecosystem
services concept, taking into account the scope of its implementation in the legislative and policy documents in Poland. Although the ecosystem services concept is becoming increasingly common in the area of scienti ic research, it has yet
to be widely implemented in practice. Exploring the reasons for this phenomenon contributes to the debate on the utility of the ecosystem services concept
because the concept might be useful in nature conservation policies, but at the
same time, it might also entail some risks.
The quantitative assessment of the presence of the ES concept in the Polish
legal and policy documents17 aimed at recognizing to what extent the ecosystem
services concept is present in Polish legal and policy documents concerning environment protection. The analysis of the documents revealed that the use of the
concept is limited. The concept is applied as a certain underlying approach.
In particular, ESs are used in a rather descriptive sense (and mostly latently).
Within 46 documents that we coded, there were 1315 parts which were relevant
to the ecosystem services concept. Moreover, 264 of those parts were found in
the Nature Conservation Act (the document with most frequent coding) while the
ES concept did not appear in 15 documents at all. Since most of them were decrees (12), we can argue that the ecosystem services concept is hardly present in
the lower rank documents. Taking into account the most general level of ES, i.e.
the sections concerning provisioning, regulation and maintenance, and cultural
services, the most represented category is “Regulation and maintenance” (42%
appearances), followed by “Provisioning” (38%), while “Cultural” is the least frequent section. The difference between the two most frequent categories is small
(only 4%). A much bigger gap may be observed between both these sections and
the “Cultural” section (20% of all appearances), which suggests that the cultural
aspect of ecosystems is applied relatively rarely in the legislation in Poland.
Moreover, we also found out that the second most frequent ecosystem service is
“lifecycle maintenance, habitat and gene pool protection” (142 appearances),
while the irst most frequent level is the most general one – ecosystem services.
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Z. Rosin et al., op cit.
16 P. Matczak et al., Catalogue of ecosystem services targeted in protected areas management and
spatial planning in Norway and Poland, Poznań 2014.
Ibidem.
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Methodology
In order to investigate the issue of the limited and speci ic presence of ES in
the Polish legislation, we designed and conducted a series of in-depth interviews
with experts in the area of environment protection. The guidelines for interviews
were prepared on the basis of content analysis to explore broader context of the
concept utility in institutions of nature conservation at different level of public
management and background (academia, NGOs etc.) as well as particular results
of ecosystem services presence in documents. An expert, individual and in-depth
interview is a method that has an exploratory value. We used it for analysing the
potential of the ES concept in Polish policies. Nine in-depth interviews were conducted with high-level experts in the ield of environment protection. Six of them
were “face to face” in the of ices of experts, two of them were phone interviews
and in one case we got answers via e-mail. The interviews were realized from
May of 2014 until July of 2014 and lasted between 20 and 40 min. The selection
of experts was made on the basis of snowball sampling supported with a literature review and a media reconnaissance. Four categories of experts were interviewed: 1) Representatives of the administration: a specialist from the Department of Environment Protection in the Ministry of the Environment; a director in
the National Forest Holding; a director at the National Fund for Environmental
Protection and Water Management; an expert from the Ministry of the Environment working on ecological education; a former Vice-Minister of the Environment; 2) Researchers: a leader of a research center; a professor at a university
of life sciences specialising in nature conservation; a scientist working at a university and for a nature protection foundation specialising in ecosystem services;
3) NGOs: a president of one of the leading associations for nature protection;
4) Politicians: a member of the Senate working on the environment protection.
The analysis of nine interviews helped to identify the diversity of opinions of
ecosystem services utility, limitations and potential among experts with various
background.
Results
The analysis is divided into three sections: 1) The scope and potential of the
ecosystem services concept implementation; 2) Positive consequences of ecosystem services implementation; 3) Negative consequences of ecosystem services
implementation.
The scope and potential of the ecosystem services concept implementation
Supporting the results of the earlier quantitative analysis, the experts claim
that the ecosystem services concept is not commonly present in the Polish public
administration, which is responsible for the environment protection. Moreover,
they argue that even if the concept is used, its application is usually inappropriate
– not corresponding to the scienti ic knowledge on ecosystem services. Apart
from the uses in scienti ic research that has some relevance when the development of policies is concerned, the concept is applied by NGOs as a tool for promoting biodiversity protection.
According to the experts, the ecosystem services concept is hardly implemented in the regulations because the term is unclear and imprecise. It is a barrier in day-to-day decision making. Moreover, the concept can rather be used on
the highest level of public administration (by central governmental administration) than on the lower ones. There are two reasons for that. Firstly, among the
highest level of government of icials there is more knowledge of “trendy” new
ideas. Secondly, the concept is applied in acts and in national strategies at a high
degree of generality, as a mere notion. The application on the level of decrees or
the local level of day-to-day decision making processes would possibly require
translation into more concrete parameters, concerning speci ic actions and money low. However, the concept is lacking such parameters.
It was also identi ied that, on the one hand, the EU regulations on ecosystem
services are still not very precise, but on the other hand, the use of ecosystem
services concept is likely to expand in the future due to the new European legislation. According to experts, there is a tendency to focus on ecosystem services in
the EU environmental laws and strategies. Poland as a member state has to transpose European regulations (e.g. assessments of ecosystem services in national
accounts18) into the national law.
Although some experts did not have an opinion on the ecosystem services
concept utility in particular economy sectors (they only knew the facts connected
to their institutions), the others noticed that various sectors differ a lot in terms
of the implementation potential of the ecosystem services concept.
According to them, the ecosystem services concept is useful in such sectors
as tourism and forestry because these yield direct pro its from nature. Some experts pointed out that although agriculture is also a sector which reaps direct
pro its from nature, the concept is not used in this sector because agricultural
ecosystems are very intensively exploited, with a much smaller emphasis on their
protection.
Regarding the signi icant disproportion between particular ecosystem services applications in the Polish legislation, experts pointed out that cultural ecosystem services were less represented than provisioning and regulating services
for at least two reasons. Firstly, this could be connected with the general regularities which were described in the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs – cultural services
were on a higher level of this hierarchy and irst required the ful ilment of more
basic needs, like provisioning, regulating and maintenance services. Secondly,
this could be attributed to the educational background of the governmental of icials who are engaged in the environmental policies construction process.
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The Europe Union 2020 Biodiversity Strategy.
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According to the experts, such of icials are mainly naturalists, and they focus on
habitats and biological processes and are less interested in cultural services.
Furthermore, even if some experts were not sure why there was a relatively
large presence of lifecycle maintenance, habitat and gene pool protection ecosystem services, they agreed that this might be caused by a traditional understanding of environment protection as a protection of species and a protection of valuable areas. Moreover, they argue that many analysed documents were written by
biologists who are aware of such environmental processes as lifecycle maintenance or gene pool protection.
Another reason could be the Europeanization of the Polish national law – the
transposition of the EU directives into the national legislation. For instance, there
are some signi icant uses of ecosystem services concept in the documents on water management as a consequence of the Water Framework Directive19 or in the
implementation of Natura 2000: “The aim of the network is to assure a long-term
survival of Europe’s most valuable and threatened species and habitats”20.
Positive consequences and negative of ecosystem services implementation
Experts emphasize that the concept is very useful as a social communication
tool in discussing environmental issues. It can minimize con licts concerning e.g.
implementation and management of Natura 2000 by helping to compromise or
to work out better solutions during the decision-making process and it can educate people on environmental protection in a more intuitive way (explaining
what people get from ecosystems and how much it may cost). Moreover, a wider
use of the concept creates the need for more research and more expertise in the
area of ecological economics. Thus, it builds a market for environmental experts.
According to some experts, the concept as a neutral idea and the method
does not have negatives aspects. However, for most experts, there is a risk stemming from the fact that the concept frames the environment not in terms of its
intrinsic values, but in terms of its monetary value. It presumes that we can protect only those elements which we can calculate. Thus, the ES concept entails
a danger of commodi ication of nature, which is fundamentally wrong and poses
a threat for the environment in the long run.
Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for the Community action in the ield of water policy.
20 MEMO on Commission strategy to protect Europe’s most important wildlife areas – frequently
asked questions about NATURA 2000, www.ec.europa.eu [20-09-2014].
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Conclusions
The ecosystem services concept is seldom applied in the Polish legal and policy documents. The interviewed experts con irm the hypothesis that is based on
the experiences from other countries21 (however the identi ication of precise
distribution of opinions requires further research).
The hypothesis states that the idea has a high potential and that it is a promising tool for policy and decision making. The research also con irms that some of
de Groot’s groups of obstacles22 have not been overcome yet, especially those
connected with day-to-day policy and management. Previous studies emphasized the necessity to integrate ecosystem services into conventional development policies in every phase of their development and execution23. Yet, the ambiguity and inconsistency of the concept pose constraints into the concept application. Moreover, due to a fragmented knowledge of the interested parties, the
concept is used in the regulatory framework mainly as a general, guiding idea,
not as a practically oriented method used operationally in the decision-making
process. The concept is intellectually attractive but entails dif iculties in its application in policies. Actually, it seems to be more useful in argumentation and communication than in measurement. Furthermore, experts attribute reasons for the
limited progress of the application of the ES approach mainly to human factors:
speci ic education of the administrators and decisions makers, reluctance to apply new concepts, and also limited and fragmented knowledge.
The concept might be perceived as ambivalent because the ecosystem services approach can be framed both as helpful in nature conservation and as dangerous to nature conservation. It may be helpful in the decision making process, but
it may also entail risks as it promotes perceiving the environment mainly through
the prism of monetary values, which may lead to commodity fetishism24 in Poland and in other countries. To summarise, the ecosystem services concept has a
policy potential, but in order to be applied, it requires more clari ied de initions
adjusted to policy making. Perhaps, application in some policy areas, such as forestry or water management, would be a step forward offering some experience
useful in other domains.
This paper is a result of research conducted within the project LINKAGE (LINKing systems, perspectives and disciplines for Active biodiversity GovernancE, POL-NOR/2/196105/2013).
E.g. T. O. McSheane et al., op. cit.; P. Lamarque et al., op. cit.; A. Nahlik et al., op. cit.
R. S. de Groot et al., op. cit.
23 P. Kumar et al., op. cit.
24 N. Kosoy, E. Corbera, op. cit.
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Marek Giergiczny • Sviataslau Valasiuk • Maria De Salvo • Giovanni Signorello
VALUE OF FOREST RECREATION. META-ANALYSES
OF THE EUROPEAN VALUATION STUDIES
Marek Giergiczny, Ph.D.
Sviataslau Valasiuk, M.Sc. – University of Warsaw
Maria De Salvo, Ph.D.
– University of Catania
Prof. Giovanni Signorello, Ph.D. – University of Catania
Warsaw Ecological Economics Centre
Długa 44/50, 00-241 Warsaw
WARTOŚĆ REKREACJI LEŚNEJ.
META-ANALIZA WYCEN, PRZEPROWADZONYCH W EUROPIE
STRESZCZENIE: Celem badania było oszacowanie zmiennych wpływających na korzyści rekreacyjne generowane
przez ekosystemy leśne Europy. W tym celu zgromadzono badania rekreacyjne przeprowadzone w krajach europejskich w latach 1970-2012. Zgromadzona baza danych zawiera zarówno badania preferencji ujawnionych, jak
i preferencji deklarowanych. Łącznie zgromadzono 53 badania, z ośmiu krajów, które zawierają 252 indywidualnych oszacowań. Badania zostały przeprowadzone na terenie 73 różnych kompleksów leśnych na łącznej próbie
ponad 40 000 osób. Dokonano tak zwanej metaanalizy, w której zmienną zależną jest gotowość do płacenia
(WTP) lub nadwyżka konsumenta na osobę (CS). W badaniu podjęto próbę wyjaśnienia zmienności w WTP (CS)
za pomocą zmiennych metodologicznych charakteryzujących badanie oraz charakterystyk badanych obiektów
– w tym przypadku charakterystyk odwiedzanych lasów. Przeprowadzona analiza wskazuje, że ceteris paribus
lasy, położone na terenie parków narodowych, dostarczają wyższych korzyści rekreacyjnych, a badania przeprowadzone w późniejszym latach związane są z wyższym poziomem nadwyżki konsumenta. Wynik ten może
wskazywać, że preferencje konsumentów zmieniają się w czasie i ludzie osiągają coraz to wyższe (w ujęciu realnym) korzyści rekreacyjne z tytułu wizyt w lesie.
SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: rekreacja leśna, metaanaliza, gotowość do płacenia, nadwyżka konsumenta, obszary chronione
Introduction
The overwhelming majority of the primary valuation studies of ecosystem
services conducted in the world recently were site-speci ic case studies, which
means that their results are highly dependent on the particular site characteristics. However, generalisation of natural values and detection of tendencies in
their shaping remain considerable challenges because of high heterogeneity of
sites’ natural characteristics. The meta-analytic approach in valuation allows for
both syntheses of the values retrieved by the primary studies under consideration, and revealing the pattern in valuation methodology analysed. Meta-analyses
approach allows basing study indings upon the considerable data since the number of primary studies, which it relies on, is multiplied by the number of individual observations they contain. Meta-analytic approach implies estimation of the
regression model, where the target dependant variable is explained through the
set of variables which account for both ‘real life’ characteristics (e.g. site-speci ic
natural and socioeconomic features) as well as the strictly methodological factors, and performs estimation of their effects. As compared with the primary valuation exercises, meta-analytic studies are considerably less expensive since they
do not require direct ieldwork. Besides, meta-analyses is often used as an approach which allows for the relatively more correct transfer1 of environmental
bene its estimated through the direct valuation studies into different context
(bene it transfer aspect of meta-analyses is not addressed in this paper).
Therefore a considerable meta-analytical literature has emerged within the
domain of ecosystem services valuation. Thus, meta-analytical valuation studies
have recently been conducted for the recreational ishing resources (Johnston
i in., 2006)2; various forest ecosystem services, assessed through contingent valuation (CVM) studies3; wetlands (Brander et al., 20064; Kuik et al., 2009); coral
reefs (Brander et al., 2007)5.
However, in accordance with our best knowledge, only one meta-analysis of
forest recreation values in Europe has been performed so far. Zandersen
& Tol3 carried out a meta-analysis based on studies that have applied the travel
cost method (TCM): twenty six primary studies in total, conducted in nine European countries; they managed to include 251 independent entries into the modelling. In their analysis most of the variables describing methods used in the primary studies turned out not to be statistically signi icant. Besides, no natural characO. Kuik et al., The value of wetland ecosystem services in Europe. An application of GIS and
Meta-Analysis for value transfer, in: 17th Annual Conference of the European Association of
Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), 24-26.06.2009, Amsterdam.
2 R. Johnston, M. Ranson, E. Besedin, E. Helm, What determines willingness to pay per ish?
A Meta-Analysis of recreational ishing values, “Marine Resource Economics” 2006 no. 21, p. 1-32.
3 M. Zandersen, R.S.J. Tol, A meta-analysis of forest recreation values in Europe, “Journal of Forest Economics” 2009 no. 15, p. 109-130.
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teristics of the primarily valued sites (except the sites’ size) proved to have significant impact on the monetary value, the result which makes the model somewhat
problematic for the practical use, for instance for the bene it transfer purposes.
Shrestha & Loomis4 performed the meta-analyses of the international outdoor
recreation in the Unites States. Unlike Zandersen & Tol (2009) who concentrated
on TCM primary studies only, Shrestha & Loomis (2003) included both primary
studies based on revealed preferences (TCM) and stated preferences (CVM). However, since they did not restrict their study to the forest recreation, the two studies’
results are not directly comparable. The idea of the current study was to combine
the approaches of the two studies mentioned, in order to detect the impact of natural sites’ characteristics on the estimated value of their recreational services.
Methodology
In our study a meta-regression technique with normalised dependant variable
– a log of annual willingness-to-pay per hectare in case of CVM and annual consumer surplus per hectare in case of TCM (WTP/ha/year or CS/ha/year) has
been applied. Only studies reporting CS or WTP per person per visit5 have been
used. Normalised welfare measures were obtained by multiplying WTP or CS per
person per visit by total annual number of visitors and divided by area of a given site.
Since the main purpose of this meta-regression was to evaluate the impact of
the site characteristics on value of the forest recreation, increasing the number of
sites by pooling observations from revealed preference (RP) and stated preference (SP) studies has been expected to increase the robustness of the estimates
of forest site characteristics6. Whilst the RP studies rely on information characterising real transactions performed by economic agents on the existing markets,
SP studies derive information from purely hypothetical markets’ modelling. Using estimates from SP and RP studies in one meta-regression raises concern
about inconsistencies between Marshallian and Hicksian welfare measures7. This
is because WTP estimates are derived from a Hicksian demand function, while
the CS estimates are derived from a Marshallian demand function. These conceptual differences between WTP and CS are accounted for by including a method
dummy variable into the regression. Some authors have applied this approach in
previous studies (e.g. Shrestha & Loomis 2003).
R.K. Shrestha, J.B. Loomis, Meta-analytic bene it transfer of outdoor recreation economic values. Testing out-of-sample convergent validity, “Environmental&Resource Economics” 2003
no. 25, p. 79-100.
5 If CS or WTP per group was calculated, this observation was included only if information on
average group size was reported.
6 Pooling SP and RP studies provided information on 82 different forests sites.
7 W.M. Hanemann, Willingness to pay and willingness to accept. How much can they differ, “The
American Economic Review” 1991 no. 81(3), p. 635-647.
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Valuation studies often test several model speci ications and report more
than just one result of interest for the meta-analysis. In most cases multiple observations from one study were included in the meta-regression by adding methodological variables that enabled differentiation between them. However, even
when all differences in speci ications are accounted for, the observations within
the same study are likely to share some non-observable factors what in turn may
result in correlated errors and biased parameters estimations.
To account for this possibility the following speci ication of the meta-regression model has been assumed:
ȏȋȌȀ ȋEUR ̵ʹͲͲͷȌȐ D E x i Pi eit (1)
Where: WTP(CS)ha/year8 is vector of standardized values (in 2005 EUR) from
study i, xi is a set of explanatory variables including study methodological descriptors and site characteristics. Error term is decomposed into two parts: error
at the study level μi and eit as an error at the estimation level. Both are assumed
to be normally distributed with zero mean and variances respectively: σμ and σe.
A random or ixed effect speci ication can be used to address the issue of
common μi across multiple observations in the same study. In case of this dataset,
testing allowed us to reject random effects in favour of a ixed effect speci ication,
which in turn was rejected in favour of equal effects speci ication. As a result,
a classical ordinary least square (OLS) technique was employed to estimate meta-regression model.
Variables, used in the modelling qualify to one of the three following groups:
• method variables which describe the techniques used in the primary study;
• site variables which address natural sites’ characteristics;
• other variables (e.g. year of data collection).
The main source of the data was a database prepared within the framework
of the EXIOPOL research project. Data on GDP and population density were obtained from EUROSTAT. Variables included in the inal meta-regression are listed
in Table 1.
Final dataset consisted of ifty-three primary valuation studies of forest recreation conducted in between 1970 and 2012 in eight countries plus Northern
Ireland, which gave 253 entries into the model; seventy-three forest sites have
been included into the modelling. Primary studies included into dataset contain
the records of over 40 000 of individual observations. For the full bibliography of
the primary studies included into dataset, please see Giergiczny, Mavsar and Zhou9.
Henceforth WTP will be used in the text, however whenever it is used it may denote also CS.
M. Giergiczny, R. Mavsar, W. Zhou, Report documenting the results of the meta-data analysis
linking the monetary values with the physical characteristics of forests, EXIOPOL Report Series,
Milano 2008; www.feem-project.net [20-09-2014].
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Ta b l e 1
Variables included in the meta-regression model
SYMBOL
VARIABLE
METHOD VARIABLES
RP
1 – if Revealed Preference method (Marshallian measure)
0 – if Stated Preference method (Hicksian measure)
DC
1 – if dichotomous choice elicitation format in SP
0 – otherwise.
OE
1 – if Open ended elicitation format in SP
0 – otherwise.
OValue
1 – if option value included, 0-otherwise
Ttime
1 – if value of time is accounted for, 0-otherwise.
ML
1 – if ML estimator was used in RP method, 0-otherwise.
SITE VARIABLES
Nine country dummies (8 countries plus Northern Ireland) with Great Britain as reference level
Ln_Inc
Log of Income on country level (EUR ‘2000)
Alt
Elevation of the highest point in the forest area (in hundreds of meters)
Ln_Size
Log of study site forest area (ha)
Protected
Protection status
1 – if protected in the form of national park, reserve or natural park,
0 – otherwise
Ln_Density
Log of Population density (NUTS 3 level) (people/km2)
OTHER VARIABLES
Year
Year of data collection
Results and discussion
The meta-regression results are presented in Table 2. Since a part of variables
enter a model in linear whilst the others in log-linear way, direct comparison of
their impact is rather dif icult, however they still allow for economic interpretation.
The signs and signi icance of the variables are in most cases consistent with
a priori expectations and past recreation valuation studies. One serious exception is GDP per capita, a variable used as a proxy of income level. Basically, income is expected to have positive effect on WTP, however in this study coef icient
by logarithm of income GDP per capita (PPP) has been found to be negative and
not signi icant. A similar result was found in Zandersen & Tol (2009).
Dummy variable ‘RP’ is positive and highly signi icant, indicating that contingent valuation method (CVM) studies produce lower estimates of WTP than do
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Tabl e 2
Regression results
SYMBOL
Coefficient
Standard errors
METHOD VARIABLES
RP
1.959***
.425
DC
1.837***
.462
OE
1.306***
.459
OValue
0.643
.430
Ttime
0.435*
.261
ML
-0.421
.456
SITE VARIABLES
Ln_Alt
0.131*
.079
Ln_Size
-0.451***
.069
Protected
1.06***
.2205
Ln_Density
0.686***
.104
Ln_GDPPPP
-0.054
.716
Year
0 .0531*
.0284
Austria
2.701***
.766
Germany
2.215***
.592
COUNTRY DUMMIES
Ireland
2.483***
.632
Italy
0.435
.366
Northern Ireland
1.062*
.599
Poland
1.701
1.102
Spain
1.887***
.527
R2=0,61; N obs.=253, Indicates statistical signi icance at: *** 0.01 level, * 0.1 level
travel cost method studies (TCM), a result consistent with Carson et al.10, Walsh
et al.11 and Shrestha & Loomis (2003).
Unlike in Zandersen & Tol (2009) the following site characteristics: altitude,
forest area, protected area, density of population proved to be statistically signif10 R.T. Carson, N.E. Flores, K.M. Martin, J.L.Wright, Contingent valuation and revealed preference
methodologies. Comparing the estimates for quasi-public goods, “Land Economics” 1996 no.
1(72), p. 80-99.
11 R.G. Walsh, D.M. Johnson, J.R. McKean, Issues in nonmarket valuation and policy application.
A retrospective glance, “Western Journal of Agricultural Economics” 1989 no. 14, p. 78-188;
R.G. Walsh, D.M. Johnson, J.R. McKean, Bene it transfer of outdoor recreation demand studies:
1968-1988, “Water Resources Research” 1992 no. 28, p. 707-713.
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icant. Since dependant variable was log of WTP/ha/year the coef icients by variables that are logarithmically transformed are estimates of the elasticities.
While the model, presented in the Table 2 exhibits the best it, different speci ications of meta-regression function were also tested. For example when altitude was employed into the regression in a linear form, its coef icient was highly
signi icant at 0,01 level. Estimated coef icient 0,073 indicated that an increase in
elevation by 100 meters raised WTP/ha/year by 7,3%12. The question however
arises: do people prefer to visit forests that are situated in highlands or mountains or they just like highlands or mountains and detected positive impact on
their WTP has nothing to do with presence of forest? Given the current dataset
this question is rather dif icult to answer, however there are reasons to believe
that people indeed may derive bigger recreational bene its from forests situated
in the highlands or mountains comparing to forests in lowland areas13. Therefore
this variable could have also been employed into a value transfer function.
Another interesting result is coef icient by variable ‘Protected’, which indicates that if forest is legally protected then WTP/ha/year is higher by 106% as
compared with the forests which are not. Assuming that protection status is an
indicator of relative uniqueness of a given ecosystem, obtained results indicate
that standardised recreational bene its are higher for forests in which the natural
processes are relatively better preserved.
Positive and highly signi icant coef icient at country dummies for Austria,
Germany, Spain or Ireland would have indicated higher conservational values of
continental and Irish forests as compared with the same of British ones. However, this difference can be more realistically explained by the relatively more numerous valuation studies, conducted in the Great Britain as compared with the
other countries and territories under consideration. There studies cover the majority of country’s woodland whilst less numerous valuation studies conducted
in other countries may focus on the most valuable sites in the irst turn. Similarly,
not signi icant coef icient in case of Poland may be interpreted as a result of relatively not numerous primary valuation studies conducted in the country.
Conclusions
Method variables effects are consistent with the literature (e.g. Carson et al.
(1996), Shrestha&Loomis (2003): ceteris paribus SP studies provide lower estimates then RP ones.
The following site characteristics have produced signi icant results in terms
of the effect on the normalised WTP per year per ha for the forest recreation:
sites’ altitude, forest area, protected area status, density of population have
In fact what people may care more about is the difference in level between the highest and
lowest part. However data on highest point are much easier to encounter and these variables
are likely to be highly correlated.
13 Mostly landscape amenities but also some recreational activities like: hiking, mountain biking.
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proved to be statistically signi icant (interpreted as elasticity because of logarithm in the left-hand side of the model) – unlike in Zandersen & Tol (2009) except the size – however some of them are missing undivided interpretation (e.g.
altitude). Income – GDP per capita (PPP) – turned out to be not signi icant (the
same found by Zandersen & Tol (2009).
Possibly, the most important inding of the study, is that the protected area
status turned out to be positive and highly signi icant. Assuming that protection
is an indicator of relative uniqueness of a given ecosystem, obtained results indicate that standardised recreational bene its are higher for forests in which the
natural processes are relatively better preserved. This inding can be considered
the study’s added value, since the past studies failed to produce similar result, the
one which may have considerable political importance.
Ceteris paribus the more recent valuation studies retrieve the higher level of
consumer surplus (either Marshallian or Hicksian). Consumers’ preferences
might have changed in time yielding ever higher recreational bene its, derived
out of forest recreation.
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Sylwia Kulczyk • Edyta Woźniak • Małgorzata Kowalczyk • Marta Derek
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN TOURISM
AND RECREATION.
REVISITING THE CLASSIFICATION PROBLEM
Sylwia Kulczyk, Ph.D.
Edyta Woźniak, Ph.D.
Małgorzata Kowalczyk, Ph.D.
Marta Derek, Ph.D.
– Polish Academy of Sciences
– Institute of Spatial Management and Housing
Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies
Krakowskie Przedmiescie 30, 00-927 Warszawa
ŚWIADCZENIA EKOSYSTEMOWE NA POTRZEBY TURYSTYKI
I REKREACJI. JESZCZE RAZ O PROBLEMIE KLASYFIKACJI
STRESZCZENIE: Na całym świecie obserwuje się rosnące zainteresowanie kulturowymi świadczeniami ekosystemów. Jakkolwiek znaczenie tej grupy świadczeń dla jakości życia ludzkiego jest niepodważalne, ten zakres badań
pozostaje słabo rozwinięty tak pod względem metodycznym jak i teoretycznym.
Turystyka i rekreacja są zazwyczaj włączane do grupy świadczeń kulturowych. Jednakże nie bazują one wyłącznie na potrzebach duchowych; obejmują również konsumpcję różnego typu zasobów przyrodniczych. Celem
artykułu jest analiza relacji między turystyką i rekreacją a różnymi kategoriami świadczeń ekosystemowych.
Dla określenia wagi ośmiu wydzieleń drugiego poziomu klasyfikacji CICES dla turystyki i rekreacji posłużono się
metodą analizy hierarchicznej. Analiza została przeprowadzona przez ekspertów reprezentujących geografię
fizyczną oraz geografię turyzmu. Badanie potwierdziło, że turystyka i rekreacja bazują na zróżnicowanym spektrum świadczeń ekosystemowych, nie powinny być zatem traktowane jako świadczenie per se.
SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: turystyka i rekreacja, świadczenia ekosystemowe, klasyfikacja
Introduction
Tourism and recreation are the important element of human well-being.
Natural values are concerned to be crucial for the most of leisure activities. Their
identi ication and assessment can be conducted using ecosystem services concept which has gained its global popularity in the last 15 years. This paper does
not aim at its characteristics, however three principal advantages of using ecosystem services concept should be mentioned. First, it allows to recognize relations
between economic and ecological aspects of use of natural resources. Second,
it makes possible to identify consequences of different scenarios of spatial development. Third, it has high potential as and information and educational tool.
Tourism and recreation ind its place within the discussed concept and are
typically listed as one of the cultural ecosystem services. However, their position
remain unclear, as they are positioned at different levels and in various relations
to other services (see table 1). One of the ambiguities is if recreational ecosystem
services are of material of nonmaterial character. The popular Millenium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA)1 classi ication recognizes tourism and recreation as one
of the cultural services, thus promotes their nonmaterial character. In Common
International Classi ication of Ecosystem Services (CICES 4.3)2 classi ication recreation is also considered as a cultural service, and it is described even in a more
narrow way, as physical and intellectual interaction with the environment.
As tourism and recreation are a very diversi ied phenomenon, the existing classiications are supposed to be too limited. The one way to resolve this problem is to
create new, more suitable typologies3. However, the use of common and well established frameworks would allow to easily combine research on tourism and
recreation with those concerning other types of human activities. The implementation of common classi ication of ecosystem services is thus signi icant from
scienti ic as well as from practical point of view. In our opinion ecosystem services for tourism and recreation cannot be limited to just one category. This paper
attempts to identify the weight of different ecosystem services to tourism and
recreation phenomenon.
CICES classi ication has been explored in order to describe the importance of
different ecosystem services to tourism and recreation. The classi ication which
was developed on the basis of environmental accounting undertaken by the European Environment Agency (EEA) is based on the requirement that any new
Millenium ecosystem assessment. Ecosystems and human well-being. Synthesis, Washington D.C.
2005.
2 Common International Classi ication of the Ecosystem Services v. 4.3, www.cices.eu [27-092014].
3 R. Costanza, Ecosystem services: multiple classi ication systems are needed, “Biological Conservation” 2008 no. 2(141), p. 350-352.
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Ta b l e 1
Position of tourism and recreation in different classifications of ecosystem services
Classification
Level
c
d
e
f
Recognition
of nonmaterial aspects
irst
One of 17 main categories
yes
no
De Groot et al. 2002b
irst
One of 23 ecosystem functions
yes
yes
MEA 2005c
second
One of 4 subgroups
of cultural ecosystem services
no
yes
Wallace 2007d
second
One of 6 subgroups of category
socio-cultural ful illment
no
yes
One of 6 bene its
yes
no
One of 20 service groups,
belong to cultural section
yes
no
irst
third
CICES 2013f
b
Recognition
of material aspects
Costanza et al. 1997a
Boyd & Banzhaf 2007e
a
Position of tourism and recreation
R. Costanza et al., The value of the world’s ecosystem services and natural capital, “Nature” 1997 no. 387, p. 254.
R.S. De Groot, M.A. Wilson, R.M.J., Boumans, A typology for the classi ication, description and valuation of ecosystem
functions, goods and services, “Ecological Economics” 2002 no. 41, p. 396.
The Millenium Ecosystem Assessment, op. cit., p. 120.
K.J. Wallace, Classi ication of ecosystem services: Problems and solutions, “Biological Conservation” 2007 no. 139, p. 241.
J. Boyd, p. Banzhaf, What are ecosystem services? The need for standardized environmental accounting units, “Ecological Economics” 2007 no. 63, p. 616-626.
Common International Classi ication of the Ecosystem Services v.4.3, op. cit.
Source: after: M. Kowalczyk, S. Kulczyk, Ecosystem services in tourism research. Case study of aquatic recreation, “Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2012 no. 2(42), p. 203, changed.
classi ication has to be consistent with previously accepted typologies4. Widely
used in Europe and in other countries, it has three hierarchical levels and can be
modi ied depending on scale and approach of undertaken research. CICES has
gone through a number of evolutionary stages since it was irst proposed in 2009.
The most recent version (4.3) has been used as the basis of this work.
Method
The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) has been implemented to identify
which of CICES categories are supposed to be the most important for tourism and
recreation. Developed by Saaty5 in the 1970s, this multiple choice method is
widely used both for management and scienti ic purposes. It has been also imple-
R. Haines-Young et al., Towards a common international classi ication of ecosystem services
(CICES) for integrated environmental and economic accounting (Draft V1), Report to the European Environment Agency for Contract No. EEA/BSS/07/007, Nottingham 2009.
5 T.L. Saaty, The analytic hierarchy process, New York 1980.
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mented in tourism research6. The method allows to incorporate both qualitative
and quantitative elements of a problem within a single study and to arrange them
in a hierarchical form. The AHP approach involves three basic steps: (1) decomposition – creation of the hierarchy (2) pairwise comparison of elements of the
hierarchical structure; (3) synthesis of priorities. The values of the pairwise comparisons are determined according to the nine point scale, where 1 means that
two activities contribute equally to objective and 9 that the importance of one
over another is af irmed on the highest possible order. After the pairwise comparison a matrix is constructed, a vector of priorities is calculated and is then
normalized to sum to 1.0. Finally, the reliability of the experts’ judgments is
checked using the consistency ratio (CR) metric. Inconsistency unveils exaggerated or careless judgments. Originally, T.L. Saaty considered CR = 0.1 as the acceptable upper limit, but depending on a character of an analysis and on a number of
compared elements values up to 0.3 could also be accepted7.
Due to limited human capacity for proceeding information the number of elements taken into account in AHP analysis should not exceed 98. Accordingly, the
second level of CICES classi ication has been assessed. These are 8 elements: nutrition; materials; energy; mediation of wastes, toxics and other nuisances; mediation of lows; maintenance of physical, chemical and biological conditions; physical and intellectual interactions with ecosystems and land-/seascapes, spiritual,
symbolic and other interaction with ecosystems and land-/seascapes. The table
2 shows the position of analyzed elements within CICES classi ication. As it has
been mentioned above, tourism and recreation activities themselves taken into
account by CICES as a sublevel of “physical and intellectual interactions (…)”.
Ten experts were asked to make comparisons of the elements presented
above. Five of them were landscape ecologists and ive were tourism geographers. For every set of judgments the individual AHP matrix were constructed.
Results were inally synthetized to one inal AHP matrix. The analysis was conducted with the use of free AHP Excel template elaborated by K.Goepel.
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and ecotourism as a cultural ecosystem service. An application at the local level in Southern
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Computer Modelling” 2003 no. 3 (38), p. 233-244.
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Tab l e 2
CICES classification – 1st and 2nd level
Section
Division
Nutrition
Provisioning
Materials
Energy
Mediation of waste, toxics and other nuisances
Regulation & Maintenance
Mediation of lows
Maintenance of physical, chemical, biological conditions
Cultural
Physical and intellectual interactions with biota, ecosystems,
and land-/seascapes
Spiritual, symbolic and other interactions with biota, ecosystems,
and land-/seascapes
Source: Common international classification…, op. cit.
Results
Figure 1 presents the results of the conducted analysis. Both included types
of cultural services have occurred to be the most important for tourism and recreation, with physical and intellectual interactions with ecosystems and land-/
seascapes at the irst position. Provisioning services, especially nutrition, are also
signi icant. The importance of regulation and maintenance remains unclear.
The elements of this group have been weighted as less signi icant.
However the inal matrix has high level of consistency (CR = 0.018), the judgments of the individual experts are less consistent. Only four experts reached the
level of consistency suggested by T.L. Saaty (CR <= 0.1). CR for another six sets of
judgments varied between 0.1 and 0.3.
The experts’ academic background seems to have no in luence on their judgments. As well those of physical geographers and specialists in tourism remain
highly diversi ied (see Figure 2). In posterior personal communication experts
admitted that the task appeared dif icult for them. The main problems which
they perceived were:
• broad and unclear categories, although some examples were given to make
them clearer;
• a lack of knowledge of the assessed phenomena; especially regulating and
maintenance categories were seen as problematic;
• the need to treat tourism and recreation in general; in reality it remains very
diversi ied.
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Fi gu re 1
The results of AHP analysis
0,00
0,05
NUTRITION
MATERIALS
CICESdivision
ENERGY
AHPweight
0,15
0,20
0,25
0,30
0,35
0,11
0,07
0,05
MEDIATIONOFWASTES
0,06
MEDIATIONOFFLOWS
0,05
MAINTENANCE
0,10
0,06
PHYSICALINTERACTIONS
SPIRITUALINTERACTIONS
0,32
0,28
e 1...e5 – landscape ecologists, t1...t5 – tourism geographers.
Fi gu re 2
The results of AHP analysis – the individual judgments
e 1...e5 – landscape ecologists, t1...t5 – tourism geographers.
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Discussion
The division into provisioning, regulating & supporting and cultural services
originates from the MEA and is implemented also in CICES classi ication. This
division is one the most used. Understandably, it could not it all purposes. It has
been criticized in context of environmental accounting9 and poverty alleviation10.
However considering ecosystem services complexity an idea of a single classi ication system should be approached with caution11 common classi ications such
as MEA or CICES, allows for easy communication and comparisons within different contexts.
The CICES classi ication de ines tourism and recreation as one of cultural
services. The discussed phenomenon is included into the category of physical
and intellectual interactions with ecosystems/landscapes. The conducted analysis shows clearly that tourism and recreation is too broad and complicated
phenomenon to be treated as a single ecosystem service itself. However, cultural
ecosystem services are de initely the most important for tourism and recreation
(0,32). Physical and intellectual interactions with ecosystems of land/seascapes
are followed closely by spiritual and symbolic interactions (0,28). Nutrition
should be also considered as an important service (0,11). Its signi icance seems
to respond to the growing popularity of regional food, that is in many cases an
important driver of tourism activity.
The regulating and maintenance services occurred to be the most problematic ones. On the one hand, the expert were conscious that tourism and recreation
in luenced ecological functions, but they seemed not to have the detailed knowledge of the problem. In fact, the relations between different leisure activities and
various types of ecosystems still remain unknown. Additionally, the enormous
diversity of relations that should be included makes their evaluation very dif icult if possible at all.
It has to be noticed, that the notion of tourism and/or recreation is very
broad and its limit remain unclear. Therefore, it is dif icult to identify any ecosystem – human relations as connected or separate to tourism. It is not just the case
of regulating and maintenance services mentioned above, but also of the ecosystem services, that are easier to be identi ied and to quanti ied. For example nutrition service supports tourist interests as well as everyday human needs. Delivery
of regional products is just a small fraction of the phenomenon and does not necJ. Boyd, S. Banzhaf, What are ecosystem services? The need for standardized environmental
accounting units, “Ecological Economics” 2007 no. 2-3(63), p. 616-626; K.J. Wallace, Classi ication of ecosystem services: problems and solutions, “Biological Conservation” 2007 no. 3-4(139),
p. 235-246; B. Fisher, R.K. Turner, Ecosystem services: classi ication for valuation, “Biological
Conservation” 2008 no. 141, p. 1167-1169.
10 T. Daw, K. Brown, S. Rosando, R. Pomeroy, Applying the ecosystem services concept to poverty
alleviation: the need to disaggregate human well-being, “Environmental Conservation” 38 (4),
p. 370-379.
11 R. Costanza, Ecosystem services multiple classi ication systems are needed, “Biological Conservation” 2008, 2(141), p. 350-352.
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Fi gu re 3
Ecosystem services concept – ecological approach. b = benefit
Fi gu re 4
Ecosystem services concept – social approach. T&R = tourism and recreation b = other benefits
essarily concern only tourists. The mentioned products can be also consumed by
locals. Also, if sold far from the place of their origin, they would lose their importance to tourism.
Originally, the concept of ecosystem services has been used as a tool for nature management and biodiversity conservation. Growing interest in the nature-human relations resulted in transformation of the original concept into the
planning tool, where nature’s services are used in a holistic approach centered
around human well-being concept12. The followers of the second approach often
P. Lamarque, F. Quétier, S. Lavorel, The diversity of the ecosystem services concept and its implications for their assessment and management, “Comptes Rendus Biologies” 2011 no. 5 (334),
p. 441-449.
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refer not to ecosystem but rather to landscape services, as landscape is more
complex term that include human activity13.
The approach results in different position of tourism and recreation (Figure
3 and 4). If the research is socially focused, limiting tourism and recreation to one
synthetic category could result in omitting some elements that are important to
human-nature relation. However, the adopted level of detail should re lect spatial, social and time scale of the research.
Conclusions
The ecosystem services concept has been widely discussed in the scienti ic
literature for the past 15 years. It can be very useful also in tourism studies, as an
enormous part of tourism and recreation activities are undertaken in nature.
In the existing classi ications of ecosystem services, however, tourism and recreation are considered just as a single service. This paper proved that such an
approach is too limited and it does not take into account the complexity of the
studied phenomenon.
Natural ecosystems have an important value as a place where people can
come for rest, relaxation, refreshment and recreation14. However, in order to use
them as places for tourism and leisure, other ecosystem functions should also be
considered. This paper aimed at discussing the position of tourism and recreation in classi ications of ecosystem services. It showed, that they should be treated as a complex phenomenon and not just as a separate service. This approach
should be continued and expanded.
The research was funded by the National Science Centre on the basis of a decision DEC-2012/
07/B/HS4/00306.
13 J.W. Termorshuizen, P. Opdam, Landscape Services as a bridge between landscape ecology and
sustainable development, “Landscape Ecology” 2009 no. 24, s.1037-1052; A. Tengberg et al.,
Cultural ecosystem services provided by landscapes. Assessment of heritage values and identity,
“Ecosystem Services” 2012 no. 2, p. 14-26; M. Vallés-Planells, F. Galiana, V. Van Eetvelde,
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14 R.S. de Groot, M.A. Wilson, R.M.J., Boumans, A typology for the classi ication, description and
valuation of ecosystem functions, goods and services, “Ecological Economics” 2002 no. 41, p. 402.
STUDIES AND
MATERIALS
STUDIA I MATERIAŁY
Andrzej Kostrzewski • Andrzej Mizgajski
Małgorzata Stępniewska • Jacek Tylkowski
THE USE OF INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL
PROGRAMME FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
ASSESSMENT
Prof. Andrzej Kostrzewski, Ph.D.
Małgorzata Stępniewska, Ph.D.
Jacek Tylkowski, Ph.D.
Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences
Dzięgielowa 27, 61-680 Poznan
WYKORZYSTANIE PROGRAMU ZINTEGROWANEGO
MONITORINGU ŚRODOWISKA PRZYRODNICZEGO
DO OCENY USŁUG GEOEKOSYSTEMOWYCH
STRESZCZENIE: W artykule przedstawiono koncepcję zastosowania Zintegrowanego Monitoringu Środowiska
Przyrodniczego (ZMŚP) do realizacji zadań w zakresie usług geoekosystemów. Program ZMŚP stwarza możliwości oparcia ocen usług regulacyjnych na danych pomiarowych realizowanych w różnych typach krajobrazów Polski, reprezentatywnych dla struktury krajobrazowej kraju. Pomiary realizowane przez Stacje Bazowe ZMŚP pozwalają ocenić na przykład usługi regulacyjne lasów w zakresie remediacji toksyn i innych uciążliwości, regulacji
procesów glebotwórczych i jakości gleby, regulacji klimatu przez sekwestrację węgla, a także usługi ekosystemów wodnych związane z regulacją cyklu hydrologicznego, regulacją jakości wody oraz regulacją transportu
materii. Realizacja programu badawczo-pomiarowego ZMŚP poszerzona jest o programy specjalistyczne, specyficzne dla poszczególnych Stacji Bazowych. Stwarza to możliwość oceny usług geoekosystemów z uwzględnieniem specyfiki środowiska przyrodniczego zlewni badawczych oraz specjalizacji zespołów badawczych.
SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: Zintegrowany Monitoring Środowiska Przyrodniczego, usługi regulacyjne, wzmacnianie lub
konkurowanie, beneficjenci
Studies and Materials
Introduction
Scientists and practitioners have a lot of experience in the assessment of the
majority provisioning and cultural services like timber, food and recreation services1, however regulating services are more dif icult to estimate and thus still
pose serious challenges.2 Much of the conceptualisation around regulation ecosystem services is not supported by observation data and the links to ecological
processes are poorly de ined. Applications to new situations are often largely
qualitative, based on expert judgement or assumptions,3 and lack supporting evidence from ield measurements. In this context, long-term monitoring data
relating to complex functioning of ecosystems seem to be very useful. Taking
this into account, the article presents a concept of the use of the Integrated
Environmental Monitoring Programme (IEMP) for the identi ication and
assessment of services for various types of Poland’s landscapes.
The Integrated Environmental Monitoring Programme (IEMP) functions
within the State Environmental Monitoring Programme since 1994. Its task, as
opposed to specialist monitoring, involves long-term research, both abiotic and
biotic of elements of the natural environment, based on planned and organized
stationary tests.
The aim of the IEMP is to provide data for de ining the current environmental
status and, based on multi-year observation cycles, to present short- and longterm environmental changes in the conditions of climate changes and growing
human impact on the environment. The results obtained from the conducted observations are the basis for preparing short- and long-term forecasts of the development of the natural environment and presenting the directions for threats and
methods for preventing them. The Integrated Environmental Monitoring Programme, as opposed to sector-related monitoring provides comprehensive information, not only within selected measurement programmes, but mostly about
cause and effect relationships and results of their impact on the geographical
environment.
M. Hernández-Morcillo, T. Plieninger, C. Bieling, An empirical review of cultural ecosystem
service indicators, “Ecological Indicators” 2013 no. 29, p. 434-444; M. Kandziora, B. Burkhard,
F. Müller, Mapping provisioning ecosystem services at the local scale using data of varying spatial and temporal resolution, “Ecosystem Services” 2013 no. 4, p. 47-59; A.I. Milcu, J. Hanspach,
D. Abson, J. Fischer, Cultural ecosystem services. A literature review and prospects for future research, “Ecology and Society” 2013 no. 18, v. 3, p. 47-59; M. Pérez-Soba et al., Study on the role
of agriculture as provisioning ecosystem service, Interim report to the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (JRC/IES), Alterra Wageningen UR, Copenhagen 2012.
2 P. Kumar, M. Verma, M.D. Wood, D. Negandhi, Guidance manual for the valuation of regulating
services, Nairobi 2010.
3 L. Jones et al., A review and application of the evidence for nitrogen impacts on ecosystem services, “Ecosystem Services” 2014 no. 4, p. 76-88.
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The IEMP is a scienti ic and research programme and it is used for recognizing the functioning of geoecosystems, their protection and preservation of Poland’s landscape structure. In terms of the methodology, the IEMP is based on the
concept of system functioning4, implements the assumptions of preserving geodiversity and biodiversity of the whole country. The basic object of IEMP research
is the river or lake catchment area within which test research areas are located
which are representative for the landscape under analysis.
A broad range of complementary stationary research is conducted according
to standardised methods at 11 IEMP Base Stations in the entire country and at
the Polar Base Station in Spitsbergen as a reference station for the assessment of
the condition of the natural environment in Poland. The location of IEMP Base
Station in Poland takes into account the diversity of landscapes-ecological zones5
and mesoregions by dominant forms of land cover6 (Figure 1, Table 1).
Fig ure 1
The location of Integrated Environmental Monitoring Programme Base Stations
in landscape-ecological zones
Source: own study based on the Land Cover Structure according to landscape-ecological zones; M. Stępniewska,
A. Mizgajski, op. cit.
A. Kostrzewski, Geoekosystem obszarów nizinnych. Koncepcja metodologiczna, „Zeszyty Naukowe Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Człowiek i Środowisko Komitet Naukowy przy Prezydium PAN”
1993 no. 6, p. 11-17.
5 A. Mizgajski, M. Stępniewska, Ecosystem services assessment for Poland – challenges and possible solutions, “Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2012 no. 2(42), p. 54-73.
6 D. Łowicki, A. Mizgajski, Typology of physical-geographical regions in Poland in line with land-cover
structure and its changes in the years 1990-2006, “Geographia Polonica” 2013 no. 86(3), p. 255-266.
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Tabl e 1
Physicogeographical characteristics of representative catchment areas of the
Integrated Environmental Monitoring Programme
IEMP
Base
Station
Catchment
research
Area
[km2]
Landscapeecological zone4
Catchment/
Basin
Physical-geographic
macro-region8
Dominant forms of land
cover in mesoregion9
Wolin
Gardno
Lake
2,6
Baltic Sea
Baltic Sea
Szczecin Coastland
Distinctly forested
and averagely
arti icial
Storkowo
Parsęta
74,0
Lakelands
Parsęta
Westpomeranian
Lakeland
Diversi ied
Puszcza
Borecka
Łękuk Lake
13,3
Lakelands
Węgorapa/
Pregoła
Masurian Lakeland
Diversi ied
Wigry
Czarna
Hańcza
7,4
Lakelands
Niemen
Lithuanian
Lakeland
Distinctly agricultural
Koniczynka
Struga
Toruńska
35,2
Lakelands
Wisła
Chelmno-Dobrzyn
Lakeland
Distinctly agricultural
Różany
Strumień
Różany
Stream
10,1
Lakelands
Warta/
Odra
Poznań Lakeland
Diversi ied
Kampinos
Olszowiecki
Channel
20,2
Lowlands
Łasica/
Wisła
Central Mazovia
Lowland
Distinctly arti icial
and averagely
forested
Święty
Krzyż
I rank
catchment
1,3
Uplands
Kamienna/
Wisła
Kielce-Sandomierz
Upland
Distinctly agricultural and averagely arti icial
Roztocze
Świerszcz
46,5
Uplands
Wieprz/
Wisła
Roztocze
Distinctly forested
Szymbark
Bystrzanka
13,0
Medium-high
Mountains
Ropa/
Wisła
Central Beskydy
Mountains/Central
Beskydy Foothills
Distinctly agricultural and averagely arti icial
Karkonosze
Wrzosówka
93,2
Medium-high
Mountains
Kamienna/
Odra
Giant Mountains
Distinctly forested
Source: own study based on the Integrated Environmental Monitoring Programme.
As regards the organization of the measurement system, research methods
and substantive studies, the IEMP refers to the European Integrated Monitoring
Programme9. The research and measurement scope of the IEMP includes the fol78
A. Kondracki, Geogra ia regionalna Polski, Warszawa 2000, p. 441.
D. Łowicki, A. Mizgajski, op. cit.
9 A. Kostrzewski, J. Tylkowski, Conditions of geo-ecosystems of Poland in 2012 – Implementation
of the Integrated Environmental Monitoring Programme; S. Kleemola, M. Forsius (eds.), 23rd
Annual Report Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution International Cooperative Programme on Integrated Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Ecosystems, Finnish Environment Institute 2014, p. 45-51.
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lowing programmes: meteorology, air pollution, chemistry of precipitation,
chemistry of throughfall and stem low, chemistry of soil solutions, groundwater,
surface water, soils, structure and dynamics of the vegetation and invasive alien
species, damage to trees and stands of trees, epiphytes, heavy metals and sulphur
in lichens, land cover and the use of land, hydrobiology of rivers – macrophytes
and hydromorphological assessment of river beds, ecosystem services.
The use of the Integrated Environmental Monitoring Programme
for valuation of ecosystem services
Table 2 presents parameters from the measurement programme implemented by IEMP Base Stations which may support the quanti ication of selected regulating services listed in the CICES classi ication10. The measurement of the load of
pollutants reaching the ground with the through low and stem low as compared
to loads of these pollutants brought to the ground with precipitation in an open
area informs about regulating services in forests in the area of remediation of
toxics and other nuisances. Forest services pertaining to the regulation of
soil-forming processes and soil quality may be characterised owing to the measurement of the organic matter reaching the forest loor and the biogenic loads it
contains. The carbon content in the organic precipitation, on the other hand, is an
indicator of services related to global climate regulation by carbon sequestration.
The degree of defoliation is an indicator of the forest condition useful for the
end user for the determination of the representativeness of results obtained at
IEMP Base Stations as compared to the level of environmental pollution. This
parameter is measured on monitored surfaces in the basic IEMP programme and
its value can be compared by the end user with the degree of defoliation in the
area under analysis owing to data from the state forest monitoring.
Further measurement parameters allow for characterising regulating services of river ecosystems related to the regulation of sediment transport. The IEMP
programme also includes the measurement of a range of parameters used to deine the quantitative and qualitative status of aquatic ecosystems. These include
physicochemical properties of waters, characteristic lows in rivers, the status of
groundwater, indices of changes in retention in a hydrological year in relation to
the energy of the lay-of-the-land and the structure of the land use. Transformation of these parameters into useful indices of services in the area of regulation of
the hydrological cycle and regulation of water quality requires the assessment of
their in luence on the degree of meeting the needs of aquatic habitats and water-dependent habitats. The seasonal water regime and water quality determine
the possibility of the ful ilment of various functions of these habitats and, as a result, of providing ecosystem services, e.g. maintaining habitats plant and animal
10 Common international classi ication of ecosystem services (CICES) v. 4.3 (update January 2013),
www.cices.eu [24-07-2014].
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Tabl e 2
Parameters of the IEMP measurement programme useful for the assessment of ecosystem services
CICES Division
CICES Group
CICES Class
Indicators of ecosystem services
Mediation
of toxics
and other
nuisances
Mediation by
ecosystems
Filtration/
sequestration/
storage/
accumulation by
ecosystems
• Remediation of pollutants reaching the forest
ϐloor with throughfall and stemfall:
Pollutant loads reaching the ground with throughfall and stemfall, mg/m2:
Basic programme: S-SO4, SO4, N-NO3, NO3, NH4,
N-NH4, Cl, Na, K, Mg, Ca; Extended programme: Cd,
Cu, Pb, Mn, Fe, Zn, Ni, As, Cr, Al.
• Remediation of pollutants reaching the forest
ϐloor with organic precipitation:
Loads of elements reaching the forest loor with organic precipitation, kg of dry matter/ha/year
Extended programme: total S, Ca, Mg, Na, K, Mn, Zn,
B, Cu, Mo, Pb, Cd.
• Background: pollutant loads reaching the
ground with precipitation in an open area
Loads of pollutants brought to the ground with precipitation, kg/km2:
Basic programme: S-SO4, SO4, N-NO3, NO3, N-NH4,
NH4, Cl, Na, K, Mg, Ca; Extended programme: Cd, Cu,
Pb, Mn, Fe, Zn, Ni, As, Cr, Al.
Maintenance
of physical,
chemical,
biological
conditions
Soil formation
and composition
Decomposition
and ixing
processes
• Maintenance of biogeochemical conditions of
soils by decomposition of dead organic material, nitriϐication, denitriϐication and other
biogeochemical processes:
– Organic matter reaching the forest loor, g/m2
– Basic programme
– Loads of elements reaching the forest loor
with organic precipitation, kg of dry matter/
ha/year
Extended programme: organic C, total N, total P
Atmospheric
composition
and climate
regulation
Global climate
regulation by
reduction of
greenhouse gas
concentrations
• Global climate regulation by carbon sequestration:
– Organic C load reaching the forest loor with
organic precipitation, kg of dry matter/ha/
year – Extended programme
Mass lows
Buffering
and attenuation
of mass lows
• Transport of sediment by rivers:
Load of dissolved substances carried with river runoff, kg/ha/year:
Basic programme: S-SO4, N-NO3, HCO3, total P, total
Al, N-NH4, Cl, Na, K, Mg, Ca; Extended programme:
Cd, Cu, Pb, Mn, Zn, Ni, As, Fe, Cr.
Mediation
of lows
Source: own study based on the: A. Kostrzewski, R. Kruszyk, R. Kolander, Zintegrowany monitoring środowiska przyrodniczego. Zasady organizacji, system pomiarowy, wybrane metody badań 2006, www.staff.amu.edu.pl [23-07-2014].
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nursery and reproduction, lood and drought protection, maintaining baseline
lows for water supply11.
The implementation of the IEMP measurement programme is extended by
specialist programmes speci ic for individual stations. It makes it possible to assess ecosystem services taking into account the speci icity of the natural environment of the investigated catchment areas and specialization of research teams
(e.g. research of lateral erosion in river beds, research of soil erosion, landslides,
drainage catchment areas, cliff abrasion).
The assessment of trade-offs and synergies between the ecosystem services
is a promising research area. This type of analyses should provide grounds for
answering a question of practical relevance: in which landscape structures of
Poland can the bundle of ecosystem services be increased? 12
IEMP Base Stations situated in areas of high natural value are attractive for
analysing trade-offs and synergies between regulating and cultural services.
A broad range of regulating services are accompanied by a low degree of anthropogenic transformation there. At the same time, the aforementioned areas are
attractive places of rest and relaxation providing a range of cultural services, e.g.
entertainment, heritage or educational values. The intensity of use of cultural
bene its in luences the structure and level of regulating services. In addition,
these areas are the place of residence for the local community which obtains food
and materials for their own needs there (provisioning services)13.
IEMP base stations with research catchment areas transformed by human
activity connected with agriculture are promising areas for research on tradeoffs and synergies between provisioning, regulating and cultural services. In addition to food, fuel and iber, agricultural areas can provide another ecosystem
services, e.g. regulation of water quality, biocontrol services, climate stabilization, providing natural habitats for conservation and recreation, aesthetic and
cultural amenities such as beautiful farmscapes. Various agricultural management practices have differing effects, sometimes in opposition and at other times
synergistic for providing these regulating and cultural services14.
The IEMP potential for the assessment of ecosystem services is also connected with the identi ication of spatial distribution of ecosystem service bene iciaries (ESBs). Different stakeholders often attach a different value to ecosystem
services, depending on their cultural background and the impact of the service
on their well-being. Depending on the ecosystem service under analysis, ESBs
can occur at a local, regional, national and even global level. For example the value of the supply of tourism and recreational activities at a given location does not
E. Maltby et al., Freshwaters – Openwaters, Wetlands and Floodplains, in: The UK National
Ecosystem Assessment Technical Report. UK National Ecosystem Assessment, Cambridge 2011.
12 A. Ruijs et al., Trade-off analysis of ecosystem services in Eastern Europe, “Ecosystem services”
2013 no. 4, p. 82-94.
13 I. Palomo et al., National Parks, buffer zones and surrounding lands: Mapping ecosystem service lows, “Ecosystem Services” 2013 no. 4, p. 104-116.
14 G.P. Robertson et al., Farming for ecosystem services. An ecological approach to production
agriculture, “BioScience” 2014.
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necessarily accrue only to the local community. It is a frequent situation that external visitors are the main bene iciaries of such services. On the other hand, the
bene its from clean water supply, waste treatment or moderation of extreme
events (e.g. lood) generally directly accrue to the welfare of local communities15.
Consideration of bene iciaries for various types of Polish landscape enhances the
applicability of ecosystem services assessment to support decision making,
as different stakeholders’ interests often result in different visions on the management of the area. The formulation of management plans that are acceptable to
all stakeholders requires the balancing of these different interests16.
Conclusions
The Integrated Environmental Monitoring Programme implemented for
20 years is a good source of quantitative data pertaining to the functioning of the
natural environment of catchment areas under investigation which are representative for landscape-ecological zones in Poland.
The veri ied IEMP database containing 1 million records is a reliable basis for
identifying and valuating ecosystem services, especially as regards the assessment of regulating services. Within the framework of the IEMP, a specialist ecosystem services programme will be implemented in the years 2015-2017, which
is aimed, amongst other things, at developing methodological and application
principles of the assessment of ecosystem services in Poland.
However, parameters of the measurement programme implemented by IEMP
Base Stations will be useful indicators of ecosystem services only if they are
adapted to the indices of bene its supplied to human societies. Operationalization of measurement parameters as proposed by the European Environment
Agency17, would be a good platform that would make it possible to standardize
the methodology for the whole country and to ensure comparability of results
with other countries.
R. S. de Groot et al., Global estimates of the value of ecosystems and their services in monetary
units, “Ecosystem Services” 2012 no. 1, p. 50-61.
16 L. Hein, K. van Koppen, R. S. de Groot, E.C. van Ierland, Spatial scales, stakeholders and the
valuation of ecosystem services, “Ecological Economics” 2006 no. 57, p. 209-228.
17 European Environment Agency, op. cit.
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Małgorzata Stępniewska
RESOURCES OF THE POLISH OFFICIAL
STATISTICS FOR VALUATION
OF PROVISIONING ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
Małgorzata Stępniewska, Ph.D.
ZASOBY POLSKIEJ STATYSTYKI PUBLICZNEJ DO OCENY I WYCENY
ZAOPATRUJĄCYCH USŁUG EKOSYSTEMOWYCH
STRESZCZENIE: Jedną z głównych przeszkód w ocenie usług ekosystemowych jest brak odpowiednich danych do
ilościowego ujęcia popytu i podaży na poszczególne usługi. Przedmiotem artykułu jest ocena potencjału statystyki publicznej do wsparcia ocen i wycen zaopatrujących usług ekosystemowych w Polsce. Analizę dostępności
danych źródłowych przeprowadzono w trzech wymiarach: dla klas Wspólnej Międzynarodowej Klasyfikacji Usług
Ekosystemowych (CICES), jednostek podziału administracyjnego Polski oraz głównych typów ekosystemów.
Oceniono także dostępność czasową danych i związaną z nią możliwość określania wieloletnich trendów zmian
w poziomie usług.
Dokonany przegląd zasobów statystycznych pozwala oceniać, iż dostarczają one rozległego materiału do ocen
i wycen zaopatrujących usług ekosystemowych, niemniej występują trudności przy korzystaniu z istniejących
danych. Należą do nich szczególnie: zróżnicowana dostępność danych statystycznych na różnych poziomach
przestrzennych, brak informacji o niektórych usługach, a także rozproszenie danych związane z faktem, że usługi
ekosystemowe nie stanowią kryterium organizującego w zbieraniu i prezentowaniu danych.
SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: usługi ekosystemowe, ocena, wycena, raportowanie, dane statystyczne, źródła danych
Introduction
The interest in ecosystem services (ES) in both the research and policy communities has grown substantially1. The main obstacles in the valuation of ES include the lack of appropriate data for the quanti ication of the supply and demand for individual services.2 The analysis of available data is considered to be
a necessary irst step towards the development of a reliable and feasible indicator for ES mapping and assessment3. Data sources that may be used for the quanti ication of ES may include both maps and statistical data4. The latter are perceived as particularly useful in the quanti ication of provisioning ES. Many of
these services are market-related;5 therefore, the input data for their analyses
may be obtained from statistical reports for individual economic sectors.
The aim of this paper is to assess the potential of public statistics for the support of valuations of provisioning ES and the reporting concerning the value of
these services in Poland. The aims of the studies include the identi ication and assessment of the available source data for the quanti ication of provisioning services
in physical and monetary units. The practical aim involves the assessment of the
usefulness of the public statistics database for the implementation of target 2, action 5 of the European Union Biodiversity Strategy. This action involves mapping
and assessment of the state of ecosystems and their services in member states by
2014 and the assessment of the economic value of such services and promoting the
integration of these values into accounting and reporting systems by 20206.
Methodology
The analysis of the source data availability for the valuations of provisioning
services was carried out in three dimensions: for classes covered by the Common
International Classi ication of Ecosystem Services (CICES version 4.3), Polish
L.M. Cox, A.L. Almeter, K.A. Saterson, Protecting our life support systems. An inventory of U.S.
federal research on ecosystem services, “Ecosystem Services” 2013 no. 5, p. 163-169; L. Braat,
R. de Groot, The ecosystem services agenda: bridging the worlds of natural science and economics, conservation and development, and public and private policy, “Ecosystem Services” 2012
nr 1, p. 4-15; R. Seppelt, et al., A quantitative review of ecosystem service studies: approaches,
shortcomings and the road ahead, “Journal of Applied Ecology” 2011, p. 630-636.
2 B. Burkhard, F. Kroll, p. Nedkov, F. Müller, Mapping ecosystem service supply, demand and
budgets, “Ecological Indicators” 2012 no. 21, p. 17-29.
3 Available data for mapping and assessing ecosystems in Europe, 2013 Final Report – task 5.2.5,
www.projects.eionet.europa.eu [04-07-2014]; Indicators for mapping ecosystem services: a review, 2012 Report EUR 25456 EN, www.publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu [03-07-2014]. Mapping
of ecosystems and their services in the EU and its member states (MESEU). Final report, part 5:
task 4 – Recommendations on mapping approaches, Alterra Wageningen 2013.
4 Ibidem.
5 Study on the role of agriculture as provisioning ecosystem service, 2012 Final report, www.ecologic.eu [03-07-2014].
6 Our life insurance, our natural capital: an EU biodiversity strategy to 2020 [COM(2011) 244].
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administrative units and the main ecosystem types. The assessment covered also
the temporal availability of data and the associated possibility of de ining multi-annual change trends.
The studies were based on the following data of the Central Statistical Ofice (CSO):
• Local Data Bank7;
• Environment – statistical yearbooks of 2005-20138;
• Municipal infrastructure – statistical yearbooks of 2003-20129;
• Forestry – statistical yearbooks of 2005-201310;
• Agriculture – statistical yearbooks of 2007-201211;
• Agricultural and horticultural crops production – publications of 2003-201212;
• Farm animals – publications of 2002-201213;
• Physical dimensions of livestock production – publications of 2006-201214;
• Horticultural crops – publications from the National Agricultural Censuses
2002 and 201015;
• Agricultural crops and selected elements of crop production methods –
a publication from the National Agricultural Census 201016;
• Arable soil use and quality – a publication from the National Agricultural
Census 200217;
• Maritime Economy – statistical yearbooks of 2007-201318;
• Energy from renewable sources – publications of 2011-201219;
• Energy Statistics – publications of 2007-201220;
• Energy consumption in households in 200921.
In this analysis the term ecosystem services indicator is used to refer to
the number expressing the level of the service, presented in an absolute or
relative form22. Source data for the quanti ication of provisioning services were
analysed in two groups: indicators expressed in physical units (such as tons,
square kilometres, cubic meters) and monetary indicators (in PLN). The former
Bank Danych Lokalnych, www.stat.gov.pl [20-0-2014].
Ochrona środowiska 2005-2013, www.old.stat.gov.pl [16-06-2014].
9 Infrastruktura komunalna 2003-2012, www.stat.gov.pl [16-06-2014].
10 Leśnictwo 2005-2013, www.old.stat.gov.pl [16-06-2014].
11 Rocznik Statystyczny Rolnictwa 2007- 2012, www.stat.gov.pl [16-06-2014].
12 Produkcja upraw rolnych i ogrodniczych 2003- 2012, www.stat.gov.pl [16-06-2014].
13 Zwierzęta gospodarskie 2002- 2012, www.old.stat.gov.pl [16-06-2014].
14 Fizyczne rozmiary produkcji zwierzęcej 2006-2012, www.stat.gov.pl [16-06-2014].
15 Uprawy ogrodnicze. Powszechny Spis Rolny 2010, www.stat.gov.pl [16-06-2014].
16 Uprawy rolne i wybrane elementy metod produkcji roślinnej. Powszechny spis rolny 2010,
www.stat.gov.pl [16-06-2014].
17 Użytkowanie gruntów i ich jakość. Powszechny Spis Rolny 2002, www.stat.gov.pl [16-06-2014].
18 Rocznik statystyczny gospodarki morskiej 2007-2013, www.stat.gov.pl [16-06-2014].
19 Energia ze źródeł odnawialnych w 2011 r, w 2012 r., www.stat.gov.pl [16-06-2014].
20 Gospodarka paliwowo-energetyczna w latach 2007-2008, w latach 2011-2012, www.stat.gov.pl
[16-06-2014].
21 Zużycie energii w gospodarstwach domowych w 2009 r., www.stat.gov.pl [16-06-2014].
22 Joint Research Centre, op. cit.
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provide a source material for the biophysical valuation of provisioning services,
whereas the latter – for economic valuation.
Results
Inventory of data at different spatial scales
In the analysed resources of the national public statistics, 588 provisioning
services indicators in physical units and 164 monetary indicators have been
identi ied altogether (Table 1). These indicators enable the quanti ication of the
services at different administrative levels. In the course of the studies, indicators
for the valuations of provisioning services at the national, provincial and commune levels were identi ied. The analysis did not cover districts, as – apart from
the Local Data Bank – in CSO’s publications used as a source material, no reporting on this administrative level was found.
As regards indicators for the biophysical valuations of provisioning services,
58% of them were identi ied at the provincial level, 38% at the national level and
4% at the commune level. Most of the monetary indicators were identi ied at the
national level (94%). Monetary indicators at the provincial level represent only 6%
of the total number, while no such indicators were identi ied at the commune level.
At the national level, a considerable share (50%) of the indicators for the biophysical valuation of provisioning services is represented by the indicators for
the services from the CICES class concerning plant-based resources. They include
the statistics of production and energy consumption from plant-based resources.
The indicators for the class of genetic materials from all biota are also widely
represented (24% of all indicators in physical units). They are mainly characterised by forest genetic resources, including parents of family as well as seed tree
stands and seed orchards. Monetary indicators describing the level of provisioning services at the national level are mainly related to the classes of cultivated
crops (40% of all indicators), reared animals and their outputs (33%) as well as
ibres and other materials from plants, algae and animals for direct use or processing (16%). The indicators related to the above-mentioned classes re lect the
Tabl e 1
The number of identified indicators for provisioning services at different administrative units
Type of valuation
Biophysical valuation
Economic valuation
Communes
Provinces *
Country *
Total
22
342
224
588
0
10
154
164
* source data that do not occur in the reporting for lower-level administrative units
Source: own study.
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value of the crop and animal agricultural production in total and divided by products, as well as the value of the wood sales of the National Forest Holding, according to product assortments.
The indicators, that are useful for the biophysical valuation of provisioning
services at the provincial level, are most widely represented by the classes of
cultivated crops (44% of all indicators) and materials from plants, algae and animals for agricultural use (17%). As regards the irst of the above-mentioned
classes, the analysed indicators are characterized by the size of the production of
consumer crops, whereas the second one – by the size of fodder crops. Monetary
indicators at this administrative level cover the value of the purchase of agricultural produce, fruit and forest mushrooms as well as game.
At the commune level, as far as indicators expressed in physical units are
concerned, the classes of cultivated crops (36% of all indicators) and reared animals and their output (27%) are the most widely represented. They are related
to the sowing area of selected farmlands and orchards as well as the headage of
farm animals. At the commune level, no indicators reporting the level of provisioning services in monetary units were identi ied.
CICES classification coverage by data on provisioning services
The analysis covered the completeness of source data related to the classes of
provisioning services speci ied in CICES version 4.3. The number of indicators for
individual classes is presented in table 2. As regards indicators in physical units
at the national level, at least one indicator for 7 out of 16 CICES classes was identi ied, at the provincial level – for 12 classes, whereas at the commune level – for
6 classes. The analysed indicators were not identi ied for four CICES classes altogether. As regards monetary indicators at the national level, at least one indicator
for 5 out of 16 CICES classes was identi ied, whereas at the provincial level – for
4 classes. No monetary indicators were identi ied at the commune level. Monetary indicators were not identi ied for nine CICES classes altogether.
Availability of statistical data for the main ecosystem types
In the next phase of the works, the coverage of the main ecosystem types
with provisioning ES indicators was identi ied. The analysis results are included
in Table 3. Indicators in both physical and monetary units are dominated by the
ones describing provisioning services of agricultural areas and forests. For many
indicators concerning the class of plant-based resources, it was impossible to explicitly match them to ecosystem types. These were indicators that covered the
total use of various forest, agricultural and peat biomass types for power-related
purposes, without taking into account their origin.
Temporal availability was determined for all identi ied indicators. When services are only assessed on the one-year basis, the drawback is the omission of
temporal changes of ES supply and demand. Provisioning services vary over the
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Table 2
The number of indicators for provisioning services available in the resources
of the national public statistics according to CICES classes
Number of indicators for the administrative level *
CICES classes
Communes
P
Provinces
M
P
Country
M
P
Total
M
P
M
Cultivated crops
8
0
148
2
2
62
158
64
Reared animals and their outputs
6
0
21
2
22
51
49
53
Wild plants, algae and their outputs
0
0
2
2
0
0
2
2
Wild animals and their outputs
0
0
25
4
10
0
35
4
Plants and algae from in-situ aquaculture
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Animals from in-situ aquaculture
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Surface water for drinking
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
Ground water for drinking
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
Fibres and other materials from plants,
algae and animals for direct use or processing
3
0
30
0
6
24
39
24
Materials from plants, algae and animals
for agricultural use
2
0
57
0
18
4
77
4
Genetic materials from all biota
0
0
17
0
53
0
70
0
Surface water for non-drinking purposes
2
0
10
0
0
0
12
0
Ground water for non-drinking purposes
1
0
8
0
0
0
9
0
Plant-based resources
0
0
22
0
113
13
135
13
Animal-based resources
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Animal-based energy
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
P – indicators in physical units, M – monetary indicators
* A class with at least 1 indicator [grey color]
Source: own study.
years based on growing seasons or regulations, e.g. concerning the agriculture,
ishing or hunting. Such information has to be taken into account when communicating ES supply and demand to stakeholders. It was determined that 85% of
the indicators in physical units cover the period of at least 10 years, whereas 15%
of them are based on one-year data. As regards monetary indicators, these shares
are 95% and 5% respectively. The predominance of indicators covering the period of 10 years and longer provides a good possibility of de ining multi-annual
change trends at the level of provisioning services.
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Ta b l e 3
The number of identified provisioning services indicators for the main ecosystem types
Number of indicators
The main
ecosystem types
CICES classes
For CICES classes
P
Agriculture areas
Cultivated crops
Forests
64
Reared animals and their outputs
49
53
Fibres and other materials from plants, algae
and animals for direct use or processing
12
0
Materials from plants, algae and animals
for agricultural use
77
4
19
0
Genetic materials from all biota
25
4
2
2
27
24
Wild plants, algae and their outputs
70
0
56
0
Fibres and other materials from plants, algae
and animals for direct use or processing
Freshwater
M
158
Ground water for drinking
1
0
Surface water for drinking
1
0
Ground water for non-drinking purposes
1
0
Surface water for non-drinking purposes
Total
P
M
315
121
180
30
24
0
12
0
9
0
Baltic Sea
9
0
9
0
Forests/Agriculture areas
58
13
58
13
Forests/Grasslands
2
0
2
0
P – indicators in physical units, M – monetary indicators
Source: own study.
Discussion
The identi ied indicators of the provisioning ES are included in the list of preferred indicators provided by Joint Research Centre (JRC)23. In the JRC’s work,
almost a half (46%) of the proposed indicators is characterised by food provision, 30% by water provision, while the remaining ones are medicinal resources
(4%) and genetic resources (3%). Indicators found in the resources of the Polish
public statistics are also consistent with the indicators of ES proposed by the
23
Ibidem.
European Commission Working Group: “Mapping of Ecosystems and Their Services in the EU and its Member States” (MAES).24 Examples of indicators for agricultural areas recommended by MAES available in the Polish of icial statistics
include the yields of food and feed crops, food and feed crop area, livestock data,
meat production and consumption. As regards forests, the examples of such indicators include the data on forest harvesting, and as far as freshwater is concerned
– on domestic water consumption and water use for sectors of economy.
As pointed out by the authors of PEER25, indicators referring to ES need to
re lect (the actual distance from) the sustainable production rates to ensure that
the long-term bene it low of services is represented. High values may arise from
over-exploitation of ecosystems and lead to wrong conclusions concerning the
most advantageous strategies of the use and protection of ecosystems. Currently,
there is no clear de inition concerning the meaning of sustainability with regard
to individual ES. However, in the Polish statistical data, no indicators characterising the level of provisioning services covering the aspects of sustainability of
production were identi ied.
It should also be noted that provisioning ES provided by agriculture are not
“pure” ES, but they originate from deeply modi ied habitats. The values of those
services depend not only on the natural capital (e.g. the soil as a natural resource
for plant production), but also on the contribution of man-made input into the
system (i.e. labour, machinery, fertilisers, irrigation).26 The availability of indicators characterising both elements should enhance the usefulness of valuations of
provisioning services for the support of decision-making processes.
The presented indicators focus mainly on ES-supply assessment. ES-supply
indicators show the capacities of different ecosystems to provide ecosystem services, but the locations of respective demands for these services cannot be determined on their basis. ES-demand indicators represent ⅓ of all identi ied indicators. This type of indicators makes it possible to determine the amount of ES
consumed or used in a particular area, and thus to assess where ES are actually
provided. In order to analyse the source and sink dynamics and to identify service low, the information about the ES supply and demand needs to be merged.27
The indicators identi ied during the presented studies enable the creation of
budgets of ecosystem service supply and demand only for 5 out of 16 classes of
provisioning services: surface and ground water for drinking purposes, surface
and ground water for non-drinking purposes and plant-based resources.
MAES, Mapping and assessment of ecosystems and their services. Indicators for ecosystem assessments under Action 5 of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, 2014 Technical Report – 2014
– 080, www.ec.europa.eu [03-07-2014].
25 A spatial assessment of ecosystem services in Europe: Methods, case studies and policy analysis
– phase 1, 2011 PEER Report No 3, www.peer.eu [03-07-2014].
26 FRAGARIA consortium, op. cit.
27 B. Burkhard, F. Kroll, S. Nedkov, F. Müller, op. cit.
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Conclusions
The analysis of the existing statistical data makes it possible to conclude that
they provide a great deal of useful material for the valuations of provisioning ES;
there are yet still several challenges to be dealt with.
In particular, data are plentiful, but their availability is different at individual
spatial scales. On the national level, data availability is not so much the problem,
as many statistics are readily available, or national aggregations can be done
from regional and local data. At the local level, on the other hand, provisioning ES
remain poorly characterised by data; therefore, a comprehensive valuation of
services cannot be carried out on their basis. It is possible to use data from higher
administrative units (e.g. yields on regional level) in order to carry out ES valuation on the local scale. However, this may result in over-simpli ication and coarse
assessment, since the crucial local speci icity remains hidden due to the high level
of aggregation of data coming from national and regional scales.28 Great progress
may, therefore, be done by the improvement of the availability of local data on ES
by means of extending the scope of data collected at the commune level.
As not all ES are represented in the resources of the Polish public statistics,
treating them as the only source of data may lead to the under-representation of
some services and lack of information on other ones. The most important dif iculties include also data fragmentation related to the fact that ES do not constitute an organising principle in collecting and presenting data. Currently, the term
“ecosystem services” is not used in the public statistics resources; therefore, statistical data on them may be found only indirectly – through the analysis of statistical publications concerning various economic sectors and subjects. The creation of an on-line platform storing data on ES on a central and accessible server
would increase data availability and enable the users to perform queries of data
for a particular output.
The presented analysis opens the discussion on the development of a complete system of provisioning ES indicators in Poland. The identi ied data need to
be discussed in an interdisciplinary manner, involving the correctness and usefulness of particular indicators, the necessary number of indicators and desired
proportion between the indicators in physical and monetary units.
M. Kandziora, B. Burkhard, F. Müller, Mapping provisioning ecosystem services at the local scale
using data of varying spatial and temporal resolution, “Ecosystem Services” 2013 no. 4, p. 47-59.
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Ewa Roo-Zielińska • Bożenna Grabińska
RELATION BETWEEN CHARACTERISTICS
OF NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND ECOSYSTEM
SERVICES OFFERED, THEIR INDICES
AND MEASURES (CASE STUDY OF THREE
COMMUNES OF PODLASKIE VOIVODSHIP)
Prof. Ewa Roo-Zielińska, Ph.D. – Stanisław Leszczycki Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization
Bożenna Grabińska, Ph.D.
SPECYFIKA ŚRODOWISKA PRZYRODNICZEGO
A ZESTAW USŁUG EKOSYSTEMOWYCH, ICH WSKAŹNIKÓW I MIAR
(NA PRZYKŁADZIE TRZECH GMIN WOJEWÓDZTWA PODLASKIEGO)
STRESZCZENIE: Określono zależności między przykładowymi usługami ekosystemowymi i dobrami naturalnymi
trzech gmin województwa podlaskiego: Giby, Nowinka, Suwałki. Celem analizy jest powiązanie wybranych elementów środowiska przyrodniczego gmin z usługami dostarczanymi przez ekosystemy. Spośród trzech gmin –
Giby wyróżniają się przewagą lasów, Nowinka jezior, Suwałki – użytków rolnych. Z wymienionych różnic wynikają najbardziej typowe dla każdej z gmin usługi ekosystemowe; dla Gib – zaopatrzeniowe uzyskane
z ekosystemów leśnych; dla Suwałk – zaopatrzeniowe dostarczane z produkcji rolnej; dla Nowinki – kulturowe
dostarczane z ekosystemów wodnych.
SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: usługi ekosystemowe, struktura użytkowania ziemi, typy siedliskowe lasu, ekosystemy wodne, grunty orne
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Introduction
An awareness of the bene its that humans obtain from the natural environment lies at the basis of the developing concept of ecosystem services (ES). Ecosystem services are broadly de ined as the set of ecosystem products (e.g. timber,
forest fruit, game) and functions (e.g. puri ication of water and air, production of
oxygen, places for recreation) that society takes advantage of 1).
The present paper aims to link selected ecosystem services related to differential natural conditions, and particularly structure of land use, in three communes of the Podlaskie voivodship in Poland, namely Giby, Nowinka and Suwałki.
It is assumed that differences in the prevalence of particular land use patterns result in a multiplicity of services provided by ecosystems. The paper presents examples of ecosystem services that are secondary to the dominant pattern
of land use in a speci ic commune. For the commune of Giby, these are provisioning services delivered by forest ecosystems, which occupy approx. 75% of the
commune’s area. For the commune of Nowinka, characterised by the highest percentage of lakes (approx. 15%), we chose to describe cultural services associated
with recreation and ecotourism. The commune of Suwałki is characterised by
a predominance of agricultural land use (arable land accounts for approx. 54%),
which favours provisioning services related to food production.
Theoretical basis of investigations
The concept of ecosystem services (ES) is currently very popular and much
researched. According to the simplest and most popular conceptualisation, there
are four categories of ecosystem services: (1) provisioning services, including
food and water; (2) regulating services, such as lood and drought control, preventing land degradation or disease control; (3) supporting services, including
soil formation and biogene cycling; and (4) cultural services, i.e. recreational,
spiritual, religious and other intangible values2. According to the classi ication
developed by I. Green et al.3, only two categories (provisioning and cultural services) comprise products and structures that are directly advantageous to human
society, while the remaining two (regulating and supporting services) provide
a structural and functional framework that in luences the overall integrity of
a landscape system and its capacity to produce speci ic services.
R. Costanza et al., The value of the world’s ecosystem services and natural capital, “Nature“
1997 no. 387; J. Solon, Koncepcja „Ecosystem Services” i jej zastosowania w badaniach ekologiczno-krajobrazowych, „Problemy Ekologii Krajobrazu” 2008 no. 21, p. 25-44.
2 MEA, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Synthesis Report, 2005, www.maweb.org [02-06-2006].
3 I.M. Green, C. Folke, R.K. Turner, I. Bateman, Primary and secondary values of wetland ecosystems, “Environmental and Resource Economics” 1994 no. 4, p. 55-74.
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The growing awareness of bene its that ecosystems provide to society makes
it worthwhile to disseminate and develop the ES conception4. Papers on ES are
proliferating, especially in the United States, but also in European countries, including Poland5. They represent diverse theoretical and practical value6. A common
goal in many of these papers is, above all, the assessment of the effect of human
activity on the supply of ecosystem services. The ecosystem services debate often
revolves around planning protective measures in areas of natural value7.
Importantly, the literature on ecosystem services provides a disorderly network of concepts and a similarly disorderly array of methods, leading to devaluation of its fundamental term. Assessments of ecosystem services account for
most scienti ic literature in nature conservation, environmental economics and
ecology8;9;10. The natural environment supplies humans with raw materials, inished products, energy and services. Some authors also perceive, analyse, classify
and assess ecosystem services from two vantage points: biological-ecological and
socioeconomic11. A. Mizgajski and M. Stępniewska12 refer to ecosystem services
as environmental services and de ine them as all bene its obtained by humans
from ecosystem metabolism.
The present paper analyses two categories of ecosystem services: provisioning and cultural ones. Provisioning services refer to products obtained from ecosystems (such as food, fuel, iber, genetic resources, biochemical substances, natural pharmaceuticals, water resources and natural raw materials used by art and
culture, such as wood for ornaments or sculptures)13. Cultural services comprise
intangible bene its derived from ecosystems (such as cognitive, recreational,
re lective values, aesthetic experiences and spiritual enrichment).
J.A. Foley et al., Global Consequences of Land Use, “Science” 2005 no. 309, p. 570-574.
E. Roo-Zielińska, B. Grabińska, Ecosystem services – classi ication and different approaches at
various levels of biosphere organisation – a literature review, “Geographia Polonica” 2012 no. 85,
v. 2, p. 65-81.
6 M. Degórski, Wykorzystanie świadczeń ekosystemów w rozwoju regionów, „Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2010 no. 1(37), p. 85-97.
7 B. Egoh, Integrating ecosystem services into conservation assessments: A review, “Ecological
Economics” 2007 no. 63, p. 714-721.
8 K.E. Limburg et al., Special issue: The dynamics and value of ecosystem services. Integrating
economic and ecological perspectives complex systems and valuation, “Ecological Economics”
2002 no. 41, p. 409-420.
9 R Costanza, Ecosystem services. Multiple classi ication system are needed, “Biological Conservation” 2008 no. 141, p. 350-352.
10 Z.M. Rosin et al., Koncepcja świadczeń ekosystemowych i jej znaczenie w ochronie przyrody
polskiego krajobrazu rolniczego, „Chrońmy Przyrodę Ojczystą” 2011 no. 67(1), p. 3-20.
11 B. Poskrobko, Usługi środowiska jako kategoria ekonomii zrównoważonego rozwoju, „Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2010 no. 1(37), p. 21-30.
12 A. Mizgajski, M. Stępniewska, Koncepcja świadczeń ekosystemów a wdrażanie zrównoważonego rozwoju, in: D. Kiełczewski, B. Dobrzańska (eds.), Ekologiczne problemy zrównoważonego
rozwoju, Białystok 2009, p. 12-13.
13 A. Becla, S.Czaja, A. Zielińska, Pozaekonomiczne użytki środowiska przyrodniczego a usługi
ekosystemów w świetle współczesnego rachunku ekonomicznego, „Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2013
no. 2(45), p. 10-22.
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Becla et al. (2013) emphasise that “a characteristic feature of cultural services it that they can be reused and the manner of using them depends considerably
on the preferences of particular social groups”. The identi ication and classi ication of services precedes their quanti ication, which involves the description of
services in natural units compatible with those occurring in the natural environment.
Source of data
The initial stage of our research was analysis of a variety of planning documents, such as Studies of Determinants and Directions of Land-Use Planning
(SUiKZP), statistical data about the Podlaskie voivodship and Suwałki district,
data from the Regional Directorate of State Forests in Białystok, Environmental
Protection Programmes for the Suwałki district, Environmental Protection Plans
for the communes, data from Commune Of ices, Local Development Programmes
for the communes and the relevant Commune Development Strategies. Additionally, on the basis of a very detailed review of literature and on-line data, “services
for” and “services from” land use in the three communes were identi ied.
The next stage involved the compilation of a possibly complete list of provisioning and cultural services. List of provisioning ecosystem services from forest
ecosystems for the Giby and from agroecosystems for the Suwałki commune as
well as list of cultural services supplied by aquatic ecosystems for the Nowinka
commune had been elaborated. Apart from the category of a service, it details the
index/measure, result of measurement, source of data and the service provider.
General characteristics of the three test communes
The choice of test communes was based on two fundamental criteria: (1) the
degree of anthropogenic transformation (assessed tentatively on the basis of the
proportion of forested area, population density and the presence or absence of
industry) and (2) landscape diversity. Three communes in the Podlasie voivodship, namely Giby, Nowinka and Suwałki, were selected for the study involving
the identi ication, valuation and assessment of ecosystem services.
Natural values
The commune of Giby is located in the north-eastern part of the Podlasie
voivodship. It occupies a total area of nearly 324 km2, which accounts for approximately 36% of the area of the Sejny district. The land use includes forests, agricultural land, rivers, lakes and wetlands. In its southern reach extends the picturesque Puszcza Augustowska (Augustów Primeval Forest). A portion of the area of
the commune belongs to Wigry National Park. The rivers Czarna Hańcza and
Marycha low through the commune. The Forest Districts Pomorze and Głęboki
Bród, whose ranges partly overlap with the Giby commune, mainly support coniferous forest habitats with a dominance of pine. The mean age of forest stands in
the commune is 67 years, and average stock exceeds 300 m3/ha.
The commune of Nowinka is situated in the central part of the Suwałki-Augustów Lakeland, in the southern mesoregion shaped as an outwash plain by the
waters of a melting ice sheet about 17-18 thousands years ago. The commune lies
in the northern part of the Podlasie voivodship and in the northern part of the
Augustów district. It occupies an area of 204 km², of which forests and lakes account for 60%. The Nowinka commune abounds in stagnant bodies of water, especially in the north-east. In the north, the commune extends over a part of Lake
Długie Wigierskie. The dense forest complexes of Puszcza Augustowska are partially legally protected as a nature reserve (“Lake Kalejty”) and as areas belonging to Wigry National Park. Of the wide gamut of landscape and natural attractions of the commune, it is Puszcza Augustowska that merits a special mention as
one of the largest forest complexes in Poland. Wigry National Park, established in
1989, whose southern range lies in the Nowinka commune, is a landscape pearl
of the Suwałki region, with its impressive faunal and loral richness comprising
more than 100 species of rare plants (including 50 protected species), 80 species
of birds, more than 30 species of ish and more than 40 species of mammals.
The commune of Suwałki is one of 9 municipal communes in the Suwałki
district. It occupies an area of approx. 264 km2 representing a young glacial landscape, mostly a hilly and outwash plain lakeland landscape. The commune focuses on agriculture and forest management, as re lected in its land use structure,
where agricultural land and forested areas predominate. Agriculture plays a major role in the commune’s economy. Due to the characteristic landscape of the
Suwałki region, agriculture thrives on the plains. Land dedicated to agricultural
production accounts for more than half of the commune’s total area (54.5%),
with individual farmers managing approx. 84% of the agricultural land. The predominance of agriculture in the commune is attested by its 1366 individual
farms, of which 932 concentrate solely on farming, 60 are exclusively involved in
non-agricultural activity, 155 have a mixed agricultural and non-agricultural proile and 219 are not active in the agricultural and non-agricultural sector. An individual farm in the commune covers on average an area of 15.3 ha.
The natural values of the Suwałki commune comprise above all its natural
resources, i.e. areas supporting the development of tourism, such as forests, numerous lakes, the varied post-glacial landscape and natural resources found in
Wigry National Park. The Suwałki commune is characterised by a high contribution of lakes (almost 11%) to land use structure. Water tourism is possible on
seven lakes (Wigry, Pierty, Leszczewek, Mulaczysko, Omułówek, Czarne k. Bryzgla and Czarne k. Gawrychrudy), occupying a total area of 2420 ha, which corresponds to as much as 88.5% of the total surface area of lakes in Wigry National
Park. Making the commune even more attractive are its many historical buildings, including a real pearl in the form of a former Camaldolese monastic complex
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in Wigry, in a picturesque location on a hill overlooking Lake Wigry, one of the
largest lakes in Poland.
The area of the Suwałki commune belongs to the Suwałki Forest District, with
a predominance of coniferous forest habitats with pine as the dominant species.
Land use structure
The three communes differ in area and population density. The Giby commune occupies the largest area of the three, and Nowinka the smallest. These two
communes have a similar population. The commune of Suwałki has the highest
population density per km2 (Table 1).
In the communes of Giby and Nowinka, the largest part of the area is occupied by forest ecosystems (approx. 75 and approx. 61%, respectively). The commune of Suwałki has the lowest forest cover (approx. 29%). The largest proportion of the area there is occupied by arable land (approx. 54%). The lowest proportion of arable land is found in Nowinka (approx. 11%), which also has a relatively large share of lakes (approx. 15 %) (Figure 1).
Tab l e 1
Area and population of test communes
Characteristics
Unit
Commune
Nowinka
Suwałki
324
204
264
[thousand]
3
2,7
6,6
[population/km2]
9
14
24,3
Area
[km2]
Population
Population density
Giby
Source: Database – Commune, Institute of Tourism, 1998-2010.
Importantly, meadow and pasture ecosystems occupy similar portions of the
total area in the communes of Nowinka and Suwałki (approx. 11%), while their
proportion in Giby is by far the smallest.
Provisioning and cultural ecosystem services,
their measures and indices, for the three test communes
A sample provisioning service from forest ecosystems in the Giby commune
The Giby commune has the highest afforestation index of the three test communes (see Figure 1). Consequently, most of its provisioning services derive from
forest ecosystems. The dominant forest habitat in the commune is the coniferous
forest, mostly mixed mesic forests (occupying approx. 77% of forested land),
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Fi gu re 1
Land use structure of three test communes
Giby
built-up-area
forest
meadows and pastures
arable land and orchards
lakes
built-up area
forest
lakes
built-up area
forest
lakes
Nowinka
Suwałki
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Fig ure 2
Shares (%) of forest habitat types in the Giby commune
fresh coniferous forest
fresh mixed conferous forest
swamp conferous forest
moist coniferous forest
fresh forest
fresh mixed forest
moist forest
swamp mixed forest
alder forest
with fresh coniferous forests and mixed fresh broad-leaved forests each contributing approx. 9% (Figure 2). Consequently, forest ecosystems provide most of the
commune’s ES. The services comprise broadly de ined forest products, including
wood and other wood products, products of the forest loor and the population of
game species. Examples of these services are given in Table 2. Narrowly de ined
services provided by forest ecosystems in the Giby commune comprise large- and
middle-sized timber, whose indices are: average volume of a forest stand, i.e.
mean wood stock per unit of forest area (m3/ha), and the measure of the service
is mean annual timber logging (m3/ha) – Table 2.
Other ES derived directly from forests in the Giby commune include the production of seeds, production of seedlings of main forest tree species, supply of
Christmas trees for sale, supply of cones providing the best genetic material for
afforestation. The forests of the Giby commune14 supply seeds from seed-producing stands excluded from cutting and from managed seed-producing stands.
Seed-producing stands supply approx. 123 kg seeds a year (Table 2). Directly related to the production of seeds is the production of cones. The gathering of cones
of the Giby commune mainly supplies cones of pine and spruce (between 1300 kg
and 1500 kg annually), re lecting the forest stand dominance pattern. Of note, the
prevailing species in the forest stands of the Giby commune is pine, which re lects
the fact that the largest proportion of forested areas in the commune is occupied
by coniferous stands (see Figure 2). Spruce makes a much smaller contribution,
while the admixtures of oak, maple, sycamore, elm, ash, birch and black alder
account for only 1-2%.
www.gleboki-brod.bialystok.lasy.gov.pl [20-09-2014]; www.pomorze.bialystok.lasy.gov.pl
[20-09-2014].
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Tabl e 2
An example of provisioning ecosystem services from forest ecosystems in the Giby commune
Services
Index/Measure
narrowly defined
Large- and middle-sized timber
Christmas trees
Measurment results*
average stocks of wood per forest area [m3/ha]
timber logging, average per year [m3/ha]
trees sold, average per year
627.00
9.81
216,00
Cones of coniferous trees
gathering of cones, average per year [kg]
2912.00
Tree seedlings of the main forest tree speciecs
average production per year [thous. pieces]
1782.50
Forest-tree seeds of high genetic value
seed production, average per year [kg]
* Monitoring of Forest Condition in Forest Districts
Fi gu re 3
Shares of bags of game animals in the Giby commune – provisioning services
100
share of bag number of game (%)
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
roe deer
red deer
wild boar
The production of seedlings of forest trees and shrubs is a very signi icant
ecosystem service. In the Giby commune, this type of service yields an average of
1,782,500 seedlings a year (Table 2), mainly of pine, spruce, oak and (smaller
quantities) of linden, maple and black alder.
Forest ecosystems also play a signi icant role in the supply of game and game
meat. A sample narrowly de ined ecosystem service obtained from the forest is
the population of game species, measured as the bag of individuals hunted. The
main game species hunted are roe deer, red deer and wild boar. According to an
inventory of March 2012, the roe deer was the most abundant game species and
123.00
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the stock of red deer was a little less abundant, while the population of the wild
boar was the least abundant. In the bag, the highest count was that of wild boars,
and the lowest, of roe deer (Figure 3).
A sample cultural service from aquatic ecosystems in the Nowinka commune
The pattern of human use of natural conditions in the Nowinka commune
serves as an example of cultural services derived from aquatic ecosystems. The
reason, among others, is that lakes have a high contribution among land use
forms (approx. 15%) in the commune (see Figure 1). The cultural service broadly
de ined as recreational and ecotouristic value is associated with the particular
value represented by surface water bodies (lakes and rivers) in the commune.
Situated in Puszcza Augustowska, the commune of Nowinka includes 9 large
lakes and 6 rivers. They are attractive above all to anglers and lovers of water
sports such as sailing, canoeing and iceboating. The indices corresponding to the
cultural services obtained from the lake ecosystems in the Nowinka commune
comprise the number of lakes, the area of a lake, lake depth and lake quality class
(Table 3). The quality assessment of the lakes was based on a set of several indices of water quality15. The nine lakes listed are classi ied as quality class I or II.
The cleanest lakes are Busznica and Długie (Kalejty), classi ied as quality class I.
The lakes differ widely in size, from approx. 17 ha to more than 2000 ha.
The largest lake (Wigry) is an exceptional tourist attraction, being known all over
Poland and attracting swarms of tourists for years. Lake Wigry is both the largest
and the deepest of the nine lakes (Table 3).
For water courses, the relevant indices that should be considered with regard
to potential services comprise the number of rivers, the length of a river, the
width of the river channel and quality class. Table 4 presents the water quality
status16 of the six rivers of the Nowinka commune which are a source of recreational and ecotouristic services. The rivers are quality class I to III. Only the rivulet of Jałówka has quality class I. It empties into the Rospuda near a site called
“Święte Miejsce”, frequented by land excursions and cruises17.
Angling opportunities can serve as an example of a valuable service offered
by the commune. It can be measured in terms of the number of spots available for
angling or the number of licence-days issued to anglers (Table 5). Canoeing tours
are a major and popular tourist attraction in the commune. Among the most
beautiful canoeing routes in Poland is that on the rivers Rospuda, Blizna and Szczeberka.
An assessment system developed by the Institute of Environmental Protection. The classi ication accounted for physicochemical and biological indices, and the inal score was assigned
to a speci ic class (I, II, III or out of classi ication). Report of the Voivodship Environmental
Protection Inspectorate in Suwałki, 2008.
16 Overall assessment of water quality – based on an Ordnance of the Minister of Environment
of 9 Nov 2011 as part of water monitoring effort in the years 2010-2013.
17 www.suwalszczyzna.net [20-09-2014].
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Tabl e 3
Selected indices of cultural services and measurement results as exemplified by lakes
in the Nowinka commune
Measurments results
Lakes
name
water quality class*
surface [ha]
depth of lake [m]
Blizno
II
238.50
28.80
Blizienko
II
38.80
16.80
Busznica
I
49.40
48.00
Długie (Kalejty)
I
159.70
12.00
Jałowo
II
17.50
11.90
Krusznik
II
26.80
18.00
Mulaczysko
II
18.30
20.50
Tobołowo
II
87.00
9.50
Wigry
II
2118.30
73.00
* Water quality was assessed as part of the Water Quality Assessment Monitoring Program in the
years 2010-2012
Tabl e 4
River quality class in the Nowinka commune - a sample index and measurements of cultural services
Rivers
name
water quality class*
Blizna
II
Dłużanka
II
Jałówka
I
Olszanka
III
Rospuda
III
Szczeberka
III
* Water quality was assessed as part of the Water Quality Assessment Monitoring Program in the
years 2010-2012
A sample provisioning service from an agroecosystem in the Suwałki commune
The commune Suwałki was included in the study to exemplify provisioning
services provided by agroecosystems as arable land occupies an exceptionally
high percentage of the area of the commune (see Figure 1). The rural pro ile of
the commune is evidenced by the dominant role played by agriculture in the
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Tab l e 5
An example of cultural sevices from aquatic ecosystems in the Nowinka commune
Services
broadly defined
Recreational and
ecotouristic
value
narrowly defined
Index/Measure
detailed specification
lakes
(a) number of lakes, (b) surface area of lakes
[ha], (c) depth [m], (d) water quality class
rivers
(a) number of rivers, (b) river length [km],
(c) river channel width [m]
surface water
angling (a) number of sites adapted for ishing, (b) number of ishing licence-days issued;
sailing (a) number of watercourses, (b) number of domestic and international canoeing
routes (c) number of cruises
Tab l e 6
Sample provisioning services in the Suwałki commune
A. Service and index
Service
narrowly defined
detailed specification
Index/measure
Agricultural plant
products
grains, potatoes, industrial crops
(a) tonnes/ha. (b) crop area/ha
Livestock count
cattle, cows, swine, sows, sheep,
horses, hens
stocking density (heads of livestock/100 ha of agricultural land)
B. Measurement results of stocking density
Livestock count
Total cattle
Cows
Measurement result
39.00
18.30
Total swine
119.00
Total sheep
0.10
Horses
Hens
4.80
1003.00
Source: Local Development Program of the Suwałki commune for the years 2004-2013.
commune’s economy. Agricultural production space accounts for more than half
of the commune’s area (approx. 54.0%). Plant products and the population of
breeding animals are examples of narrowly de ined ecosystem services provided
by agriculture in the Suwałki commune (Table 6AB).
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Cropping patterns on arable land in the Suwałki commune
feed grains
legumes
industrial plants
fodder
potatoes
The indices and measures of agricultural ecosystem services associated with
plant production comprise yield per hectare or crop area (ha) – Table 6A.
The crop structure in individual farms demonstrates a dominance of cereals,
which occupy nearly 80% of the crop area, while forage plants account for approx. 14%, and potatoes approx. 6% (Figure 4)18.
The agriculture of the commune of Suwałki is also characterised by a large
diversity of animal breeding, with swine and cattle breeding as the predominant
types. The index for this service is the head count of livestock /100 ha agricultural land. Of note is also a high proportion of poultry in animal breeding production
(Table 6B). Poultry breeding has a long tradition in the Suwałki commune. Several poultry farms are in operation now, with the largest one (40,000 broiler chickens) in Zielone Kamedulskie19. The agricultural pro ile of the commune is also
owed to its 1,366 individual farms, the number possibly representing an index of
the broadly de ined category of provisioning services referred to as food production.
Conclusions
The preliminary results of desk studies and correlating the sample services
to the diverse environmental conditions permit the following conclusions:
1. The three test communes, manifesting an agriculture- and forest-oriented
functional pro ile and possessing exceptional environmental values on the
country scale, represent qualitatively similar natural values.
Program rozwoju lokalnego gminy Suwałki na lata 2004-2013, Suwałki 2004.
Studium uwarunkowań i kierunków zagospodarowania przestrzennego Gminy Suwałki,
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2. The accumulation of natural resources in the communes provides for diverse
bene its in the form of ecosystem services associated with rural and wooded
areas and exceptional aquatic resources.
3. A comparison of land use patterns in the three communes revealed a predominance of forests in the Giby commune, arable land in the Suwałki commune and the highest percentage of lakes in the Nowinka commune. This
provides grounds for expecting that the services offered by nature in the Giby
commune will be classi ied as provisioning services derived from forest ecosystems, while those from Nowinka will predominantly represent cultural
services associated with recreation and ecotourism and Suwałki will generally provide provisioning services from agricultural produce.
Article founded from National Science Center – no. UMO-2012/07/B/ST/10/04344
Piotr Lupa • Andrzej Mizgajski
THE INFLUENCE OF THE DATA ANALYSIS
SCALE ON THE ESTIMATED SIZE
OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
Piotr Lupa, M.Sc.
Department of Integrated Geography
WPŁYW SKALI OPRACOWANIA DANYCH
NA SZACOWANĄ WIELKOŚĆ ŚWIADCZEŃ EKOSYSTEMÓW
STRESZCZENIE: Określanie wielkości świadczeń ekosystemów (ES) odbywa się często na podstawie wtórnych
źródeł informacji, dlatego istotne jest rozpoznanie wpływu stopnia generalizacji danych źródłowych na dokonywane szacunki.
Celem badań było określenie wpływu stopnia generalizacji danych wejściowych na szacowane wielkości wybranych ES na terenie gminy Krajenka. Kwantyfikacji poddano lokalne walory rekreacyjne i estetyczne środowiska
przyrodniczego, należące do grupy świadczeń kulturowych oraz produkcję płodów rolnych w agroekosystemach
jako przykład świadczeń zaopatrujących.
W pracy wykorzystano zestaw opracowań kartograficznych i baz danych przestrzennych różniących się poziomem szczegółowości treści. Przy testowaniu hipotez badawczych wykorzystano techniki geoinformacyjne (GIS)
i statystyczne, a wśród nich test ANOVA rang Kruskalla-Wallisa i test U Manna-Whitneya. Wykazano istotny statystycznie wpływ stopnia generalizacji danych wejściowych na wyniki kwantyfikacji świadczeń estetycznych
oraz świadczeń zaopatrujących związanych z produkcją płodów rolnych.
SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: kwantyfikacja świadczeń ekosystemów, generalizacja kartograficzna, gmina Krajenka
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Introduction
The methodological concept of the ES research is aimed at enriching argumentation in favour of moderate use of natural environment resources1. A vast
majority of research in this area is based on information from secondary sources
including cartographic studies. It raises the problem of de ining the degree of
detail of the input data on the results obtained, especially as regards economic
valuation2. According to R. Costanza 20123, a key challenge in the ES valuation
involves the imperfection of the information that one has access to and determination of the in luence on the degree of detail of the information about processes
in ecosystems.
The research included provisioning services connected with biomass production in ecosystems and cultural services in open areas connected with conditions for rest and relaxation (recreational services) and with experiencing the
beauty of nature (aesthetic services).
The analysis was performed for the Krajenka Commune situated in the north
part of the Wielkopolska region. It is an area of high natural value connected with
the occurrence of forest complexes and natural bodies of water with small pressure of economic activities. According to the ecological and landscape classi ication prepared for the purposes of the ES assessment in Poland4, the area of research is situated in the lake district zone characterised by an above-average
level of the supply of regulating and cultural services, which is connected with
considerable biodiversity and recreational attractiveness of this area.
The aim of the research was to de ine the effect of the spatial data scale on the
results of estimating the size of selected ecosystem services. It was veri ied
whether statistically signi icant differences occurred between the ES quanti ication results obtained using the same research method but assigned to spatial
data sets from cartographic studies with varying degrees of detail.
A. Mizgajski, Problemy percepcji idei zrównoważonego rozwoju w naukach przyrodniczych,
in: A. Graczyk (ed.), „Prace Naukowe Akademii Ekonomicznej. Zrównoważony rozwój w teorii
ekonomii i w praktyce” z. 1190, Wrocław 2007, p. 171-180; A. Mizgajski, Świadczenia ekosystemów jako rozwijające się pole badawcze i aplikacyjne, „Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2010 no. 1(37),
p. 10-19.
2 R.S. de Groot et al., Integrating the ecological and economic dimensions in biodiversity and
ecosystem service valuation, in: P. Kumar (ed.), Chapter 1: The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity, London 2010, www.teebweb.org [27-09-2014]; F. Müller, L. Willemen, R.S. de Groot,
Ecosystem services at the landscape scale: the need for integrative approaches, “Landscape
Online” 2011, p. 1-11.
3 R. Costanza, Ecosystem functions and services, „Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2012 no. 2(42), p. 8-17.
4 A. Mizgajski, M. Stępniewska, Ecosystem services assessment for Poland – challenges and possible solutions, „Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2012 no. 2(42), p. 54-73.
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Research methods and assumptions
Quantification of provisioning services
The spatial differentiation of the biomass production level was de ined by
assigning the normative yields of basic cereals, including wheat, rye, triticale,
oats and barley to the soil quality class and to complexes of agricultural suitability5. Yield sizes were updated to include data from more recent studies on cereal
yields (cf. A. Macias 19966, H. Terelak et al. 20007, S. Krasowicz et al. 20098).
Apart from grain, as the main yield, the studies included data on the secondary
yield in the form of straw was included. The size of the secondary yield production was estimated according to a conversion factor as 0.48 of the primary yield9.
For grassland, the size of the meadow hay production was estimated, taking into
account indices from the literature10. The monetary valuation of services connected with grain and straw production for basic cereals and the production of
meadow hay were performed using arithmetic means of the price of agricultural
products calculated on the basis of the data published by BDL GUS (Local Data
Bank, Central Statistical Of ice) for the 2003-2012 decade.
Spatial data about complexes of agricultural suitability of soil and quality
classes of arable land meadows came from agricultural soil maps at a scale of
1:5 000 and 1:100 000 and Land and Building Registers at a scale of 1:2 000 –
1:5 000.
Quantification of cultural services
To estimate the size of cultural services, the scored classi ication was used,
which was based on the results of surveys conducted in randomly selected groups
of Krajenka Commune inhabitants. The recreational attractiveness index for the
land cover (WAR) and the landscape aesthetic attractiveness index (WAE) were
5
T. Witek (ed.), Waloryzacja rolniczej przestrzeni produkcyjnej Polski według gmin, Puławy 1981.
6 A. Macias, Przyrodnicze uwarunkowania rozwoju lokalnego, in: J.J. Parysek (ed.), Rozwój lokal-
ny i lokalna gospodarka przestrzenna, Poznań 1996, p. 67-97.
H. Terelak, S. Krasowicz, T. Stuczyński, Środowisko glebowe polski i racjonalne użytkowanie
rolniczej przestrzeni produkcyjnej, „Pamiętnik Puławski-Materiały Konferencji” 2000 v. 120,
p. 455-469.
8 S. Krasowicz, T. Stuczyński, A. Doroszewski, Produkcja roślinna w Polsce na tle warunków przyrodniczych i ekonomiczno-organizacyjnych, „Studia i Raporty IUNG-PIB” 2009 z. 14, p. 27-54.
9 Wskaźnik stanowił średnią arytmetyczną wartość wskaźników oszacowanych przez:
D.H. McCartney, H.C. Block, P.L. Dubeski, A.J. Ohama, Review: The composition and availability
of straw and Schaff from smallgrain cereals for beef cattle in western Canada, „Canadian Journal
of Animal Science” 2006 no. 86(4), p. 443-455; W. Denisiuk, Słoma – potencjał masy i energii,
„Inżynieria Rolnicza” 2008 no. 2(100), p. 23-30.
10 H. Czyż, E. Niedźwiecki, M. Trzaskoś, Charakterystyka czynników siedlisk łąkowych, in: M. Rogalski (ed.), Łąkarstwo, Poznań 2004, p. 13-21; p. Bródka, A. Macias, Kryteria i metody waloryzacji zasobów przyrodniczych, in: S. Bródka (ed.), Praktyczne aspekty ocen środowiska przyrodniczego, Poznań 2010.
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constructed. The construction of indices based on the percentage shares of respondents’ answers (Rs), which assigned recreational and aesthetic attractiveness ranks to the individual types of the land cover, the land cover structure and
the relief (equation 1).
WAR/WAELULC/M/R = Rsa + Rsb/2
(1)
Explanation:
Rsa – the (%) share of responses assigning the highest rank of recreational/aesthetic attractiveness to a given feature.
Rsb – the (%) share of responses assigning the medium rank of recreational/aesthetic attractiveness to a given feature. explanation
The indices can be interpreted as a re lection of the social value of cultural
services assigned by the commune inhabitants to a given type of land cover or
relief (lie-of-the-land). They assume values from the range of 0 – 100 points, taking into account the fact that it is very unlikely to obtain extreme values for a research group consisting of a large number of respondents. The subjectivity of the
individual assessment of the ES value was limited owing to the inclusion of information from a large group of randomly selected respondents characterised by
diverse socioeconomic features and preferences as regards the perception of
physiognomic features of the natural environment and rest in open areas.
The representativeness of the results is limited to the area inhabited by the population, from which the research group was selected and to populations similar
to the research group11.
The assessment of the influence of the data analysis scale on the estimated size
of services
The in luence of the scale of the spatial data used on the estimated size of
selected ES was tested by means of an experiment involving a comparison of the
estimated ES values in areas randomly selected for analysis in the research area.
They consisted of circular areas randomly covering fragments of the Krajenka
Commune. The surface area of each testing ground was 3.14 ha (r=100 m). 365
research areas were selected for provisioning services and 332 areas were selected for cultural services.
The description of the pilot studies and main surveys, including the structure of the questionnaire, the adopted methodological assumptions and description of respondents are presented in more detail in the following publications: P. Lupa, Wartość rekreacyjna zbiorników
wodnych w koncepcji świadczeń ekosystemów, in: T. Wiskulski, M. Pilarski (eds.), Współczesne
zagadnienia, problemy i wyzwania w badaniach geogra icznych, v. 1, Gdańsk 2013, p. 41-54;
P. Lupa, Ecosystems’ local recreational services valuation. Krajenka municipality case study,
„Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2012 no. 2(42), p. 209-222.
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Non-parametric tests were used in the statistical analysis of signi icance of
differences in the estimated ES: the Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance
and the Mann–Whitney U-test12. This allowed to verify two research hypotheses:
• H0: no signi icant differences in the value of services between individual data
accuracy groups (zero hypothesis),
• H1: a signi icant difference between at least two data accuracy groups (alternative hypothesis).
The α=0.05 statistical signi icance level was adopted, which means that the
probability of committing an error during the veri ication of hypotheses was not
higher than 5%. When the probability of error was higher than the α level, it was
concluded that there were no grounds for rejecting the zero hypothesis. Likewise, when the value was lower than the adopted statistical level α, it was concluded that there were grounds for rejecting the zero hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis was adopted.
Research results
Provisioning services
Estimated values of provisional services were assigned to individual soil fertility (quality) classes in agricultural ecosystems. The total crop production level
was determined as 2.7 times higher on top-quality arable lands than on the least
fertile lands. The differences between the best and poorest grassland complexes
as regards provisioning services were 3.3 times higher, i.e. greater than for arable
land.
The estimation of biomass production based on spatial structure of soil quality, which has been calculated at the varied detail of spatial data. It amounted to
4.15 t/ha/year (1,894 PLN/ha/year), when data from Land and Building Registers were used, while for data from agricultural soil maps, these values ranged
from 4.77–4.80 t/ha/year (PLN 2,173–2,187 ha/year). The results obtained were
7 – 8% lower than average values calculated for agricultural ecosystems in the
entire commune, which indicates a good representativeness level of the research
sample.
Using the Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance, it was found that the
difference between results obtained from data from various sources were statistically signi icant. The degree of generalisation of agricultural soil maps did not
in luence the result, which con irms the high quality of the generalisation procedure of these maps (Figure 1).
A. Stanisz, Przystępny kurs statystyki w oparciu o program STATISTICA PL na przykładach
z medycyny, Kraków 1998; A. Stanisz, Podstawy statystyki dla prowadzących badania naukowe.
Odcinek 6: ABC wery ikacji hipotez, 2000, www.mp.pl [20-09-2014].
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Figure 1
Graphic interpretation of statistical differences of biomass productivity levels depending on data
sources used in study (maps scales)
Source: own study
Source: own study.
Cultural services
According to the survey results, forest and woodlots are the most highly valued areas for rest and recreation as well as surface waters in the research areas,
for which the WAR index exceeds 70 points per maximum of 100 points (see
equation 1). These values are twice as high as in developed areas, which are considered to be the least attractive (Table 1). The intermediate level of attractiveness was assigned to arable lands and grasslands.
The value of the average weighted index of recreational attractiveness of the
land cover WAR for measurement areas calculated on the basis of data from Land
and Building Registers was 61.78 points and it was almost identical with values
obtained from data from the other sources. The spread of the results was only
0.92 points13. Thus, in this case, the degree of detail of individual input data did
13 The results of calculations for testing areas were by 0,5-1,6% higher than values of the index
calculated for the entire commune, which indicates a very good degree of representativeness
of the research sample.
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Tabl e 1
Valuation of recreational services in Krajenka Commune
No.
Basic types
of land use / land cover (LULC)
Level of recreational attractiveness
[% of answers, n=198]
low
average
WAR
high
1.
Forests and woodlots
6
35
59
76,3
2.
Surface waters
9
36
55
73,2
3.
Urban green
24
46
30
52,8
4.
Farmlands (arable lands)
28
49
23
47,5
5.
Meadows (grasslands)
22
64
14
45,7
6.
Built-up areas
35
56
9
37,1
Source: own study.
Fi gu re 2
Graphic interpretation of statistical differences of WAR values depending on data sources used in
study (maps scales)
Source: own study.
not in luence the quanti ication result. Despite a trend visible in the graphic representation (Figure 2), the differences turn out to be statistically insigni icant.
As regards the landscape aesthetic attractiveness index WAE calculated for
measurement areas, it was found that there was a statistically signi icant relationship between the degree of generalisation of the spatial data and the size of
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Fig ure 3
Graphic interpretation of statistical differences of WAE values depending on data sources
used in study (maps scales)
Source: own study.
the average weighted index (Figure 3). The level of this index grows together
with a growing degree of detail of the spatial data source.
The index had the lowest value (47.02 points) when data from the Corine
land cover 2006 database where used and its value was the highest (53.77 points)
when data from the Sozological map of Krajenka Commune were used. It should
be noticed that the results of research obtained for the testing areas differed only
by 0.1–0.4% from the values calculated for the entire commune.
An additional study was performed as regards aesthetic services, which speci ically considered the in luence of the degree of detail on three measures of
aesthetic value: land cover type (LULC), land cover structure (M) and relief (R).
Forests and surface waters were characterised by the highest value of aesthetic services among the tested land cover types, measured by the value of the
WAELULC index. Considering the forest division according to the share of deciduous and coniferous trees, mixed forests were regarded as the most interesting, as
followed by deciduous forests and coniferous forests. A signi icantly lower value
of aesthetic services was estimated for dispersed habitation areas, next for meadows and farmlands. WAELULC adopted values ranging from 45.2 points for dense
developments to 74.9 points for mixed forests (Table 2).
Depending on the degree of detail of the input data used, the value of the average weighted land cover attractiveness index WAELULC within the measurement
areas was estimated at a level ranging from 58.86 to 59.67 points. Such low dif-
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Tabl e 2
Results of aesthetic services valuation (WAELULC, WAEM, WAER values)
No.
Landscape features
Level of aesthetic attractiveness
[% of answers, n=187]
low
average
Indicator
high
Land use / land cover types (LULC)
WAELULC
1.
Mixed forests
56
37
6
2.
Deciduous forests
53
39
7
73,0
3.
Surface waters
54
35
11
71,4
4.
Coniferous forests
45
44
11
67,1
5.
Dispersed habitation areas
25
52
22
51,3
6.
Meadows (grasslands)
19
61
20
49,7
7.
Farmlands
24
49
27
48,7
8.
Densely built-up areas
20
50
30
45,2
45
42
13
66,3
8
58
34
37,2
Land cover structure
9.
Areas with a mosaic land cover structure
10.
Areas with monotonous land cover structure
74,9
WAEM
Relief
WAER
11.
Areas with diverse relief (river valleys, hills, etc.)
57
31
12
72,2
12.
Areas with monotonous relief ( lat areas)
14
55
31
41,4
Source: own study.
ferentiation in the value of this index shows that there is no signi icant in luence
of the type of the spatial data used. This conclusion is con irmed by the results of
the Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance.
Areas with a mosaic land cover structure were characterised by high aesthetic attractiveness in the commune (WAEM = 66.3), (Table 2), while areas with monotonous land cover diversity were the least interesting (WAEM = 37.2). Considering three different sources of spatial data used during the quanti ication, the
average weighted index of aesthetic attractiveness of the land cover structure
assumed values ranging from 40.34 to 57.91 points for the measurement areas14.
The conducted statistical analysis con irmed the occurrence of signi icant
differences between values WAEM calculated using input data with a different degree of generalisation (Figure 5). The research proved that the estimated level of
the value resulting from the land cover structure decreases together with an increase in the degree of the input data generalization used for quanti ication.
The results of calculations for testing areas were by 0,4-1,7% lower than values of the index
calculated for the entire commune, which indicates a very good degree of representativeness
of the research sample.
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Fig ure 4
Graphic interpretation of statistical differences of WAELULC values (land cover types) depending on
data sources used in study
Source: own study.
Fig ure 5
Graphic interpretation of statistical differences of WAEM values (land cover structure) depending on
data sources used in study (maps scales)
Source: own study.
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Fi gu re 6
Graphic interpretation of statistical differences of WAER values (relief) depending on data sources
used in study
Source: own study.
In the respondents’ opinion, areas with diverse relief (borderline areas of
river valleys and lake troughs, hilly areas with considerable height difference and
high and varied slope) were by far more visually attractive than vast lat areas
with monotonous lie-of-the-land and small height difference (e.g. outwash plains,
strips of lat ground moraine). The WAER value was estimated at levels ranging
from nearly 41.5 points for areas with monotonous lie-of-the-land to 72.2 points
for areas with diverse relief. The average weighted index of the aesthetic attractiveness of the relief for the areas under analysis (WAER) assumed values ranging
from 41.69 to 43.75 points, depending on the source of spatial data from which
information about the elevation diversity of the area is obtained. These values
differed only by 0.2–0.6% from the values of the index calculated for the entire
commune, which con irms the representativeness of the tested sample.
Statistical analysis con irmed the existence of signi icant differences between
WAER values calculated in accordance with the General geographic database at
a scale of 1:250 000 (Figure 6), and a lack of such differences between the levels
of such an index calculated from a topographic map at a scale of 1:25 000 and the
thematic map at a scale of 1:50 000. The obtained result can be considered as
approximate to the young glacial lowlands. Obviously the more intense relief
needs for a more detailed scale of spatial data.
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Conclusions
The results obtained can be assigned to the trend of methodological studies
related to ES quanti ication. In the literature devoted to this area, a relationship
is noticed between the obtained results of quanti ication and the degree of generalisation of the input data and the spatial scale at which a given service is considered (cf. K. M. Konarska et al. 200215, M. Kandziora et al. 200216, L. Hein et al.
200617, B. Marion-Lopez et al. 200918, Y. Zhang et al. 201319). Against this background, this study analyses a speci ic set of ecosystem services on a local scale.
The results obtained did not con irm previous indings (K. M. Konarska, op. cit.),
which showed that an increase in the degree of detail of spatial data led to an increase of the size of the estimated services by several times. For provisioning
services, results with the opposite trend were obtained as data with a higher degree of detail from cadastral maps resulted in a nearly 20% decrease in the estimated values of services than those obtained from less detailed agricultural soil
maps. The results presented also make it possible to conclude that correctly generalised maps prepared on the same basis of empirical research do not cause
differences in the values of the calculated provisioning services.
The results obtained for cultural services also show a diversi ied situation.
The estimated level of recreational services did not show statistically signi icant
different conditions by the degree of detail of the spatial data. Signi icant differences occurred, on the other hand, for aesthetic services, for which the calculated
values were higher for more detailed sources of spatial data.
In general, it can be concluded that the diversity of the size of the spatial data
should be considered critically in the light of the assessment of the source data
used. It is of lesser importance for comparative studies when homogeneous databases are used. Assuming a similar systematic error, registered differences are
not encumbered with this error. Particular care must be exercised while interpreting the absolute values and while comparing the results obtained on the basis of data from various sources.
K. M. Konarska, P. C. Sutton, M. Castellon, Evaluating scale dependence of ecosystem service
valuation: a comparison of NOAA-AVHRR and Landsat TM datasets, “Ecological Economics”
2002 no. 41, p. 491-507.
16 M. Kandziora, B. Burkhard, F. Müller, Mapping provisioning ecosystem services at the local scale
using data of varying spatial and temporal resolution, “Ecosystem Services” 2013 no. 4, p. 47-59.
17 L. Hein, K. van Koppen, R.S. de Groot, E.C. van Ierland, Spatial scales, stakeholders and the
valuation of ecosystem services, “Ecological Economics” 2006 no. 57, p. 209-228.
18 B. Martin-Lopez, E. Gómez-Baggethun, P.L. Lomas, C. Montes, Effects of spatial and temporal
scales on cultural services valuation, “Journal of Environmental Management” 2009 no. 90,
p. 1050-1059.
19 Y. Zhang, C. Holzapfel, X. Yuan, Scale-dependent ekosystem services, in: S. Wratten, H. Sandhu,
R. Cullen, R. Costanza (eds.), Ecosystem services in agricultural and urban landscapes, 2013,
p. 107-121.
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Anna Bartczak • Tomasz Żylicz
WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR FOREST CLEANING
IN POLAND. RESULTS FROM
A CONTINGENT VALUATION SURVEY
Anna Bartczak, Ph.D.
Prof. Tomasz Żylicz, Ph.D.
Faculty of Economic Science
Warsaw Ecological Economics Center
00-241 Warsaw, Dluga 44/50
GOTOWOŚĆ DO PŁACENIA ZA SPRZĄTANIE LASÓW W POLSCE.
WYNIKI BADANIA WYCENY WARUNKOWEJ
STRESZCZENIE: Rekreacja należy do najważniejszych usług ekosystemowych lasów przynoszących znaczące korzyści dla społeczeństwa. W artykule tym skupiamy się na problemie zaśmiecenia, jako czynniku obniżającym
jakość wizyt w lasach. Przy zastosowaniu metody wyceny opartej na preferencjach zadeklarowanych obliczamy
gotowość do płacenia (z ang. Willigness To Pay – WTP) za zmniejszenie tego problemu. W tym celu przeprowadziliśmy badanie ankietowe na dużej próbie osób odwiedzających lasy. Badanie odbyło się w terenie, respondentami były osoby odwiedzające poszczególne lasy. Wybraliśmy pięć lasów znajdujących się w sąsiedztwie średniej
wielkości aglomeracji miejskich. Respondenci zostali poproszeni o odpowiedzi na pytania otwarte dotyczące ich
WTP za zmniejszenie zanieczyszczenia w lesie. Zastosowano dwa takie pytania: pierwsze odnosiło się do zmniejszenia zaśmiecenia w odwiedzanym przez respondenta lesie, drugie zaś dotyczyło zmniejszenia zaśmiecenia lasów w całym województwie. W pierwszym przypadku gotowość do zapłaty oszacowano na 27 PLN (6.75 €),
w drugim zaś na 36 PLN (9.00 €) w postaci wzrostu rocznych lokalnych podatków. W analizie wykorzystano model regresji interwałowej. Otrzymane wyniki zostały omówione w kontekście innych badań dotyczących rekreacji
i zaśmiecenia w Polsce
SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: usługi ekosystemowe, zaśmiecenie lasu, rekreacja w lasach, wycena nierynkowa, preferencje zadeklarowane
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Introduction
Visiting forests and related recreation activities play an important role in Poland’s consumer surplus. The recreation value of Polish forests was estimated
several times using Travel Cost and other methods. Some of these studies were
focused on the Bialowieza Primeval Forest.1 One of them – based on ten different
study areas – demonstrated that the value of forest recreation on a per hectare
and on a per visit basis is much higher in Poland than in other European countries.2 Contrary to earlier hypotheses3, it revealed that people’s Willingness
To Pay (WTP) for forest recreation is higher than in Western Europe.
While the high value attached to forest recreation in Poland may result from
some country-speci ic characteristics, an interesting question is to what extent
this value relates to forest-speci ic features. Using Choice Experiments, one recent study4 linked people’s WTP to such site-speci ic – mainly biological – features as species composition, age, tree-stand density and so on.
This study focuses on littering which is an important aspect of a ‘non-biological’ feature of a forest. Littering has emerged as one of the most visible disamenities observed by forest visitors. At the same time, it is likely to be even more
important in the future, since the government of Poland introduced new household waste legislation. According to its proponents, local authorities will be more
effective at channelling waste lows into legal procedures. However, according to
the opponents, the new legislation will result in an even stronger tendency for
‘midnight dumping’ and thus even more littered forests.
Forest littering in Poland includes not only plastic bags and napkins, but all
types of beverage containers, furniture, refrigerators, car tyres, and even car bodies. Forest littering has attracted the attention of researchers at least since the
1970s5. There have been analyses of organic littering and its impact on ecosystem services6. There have also been studies of people’s preferences with respect
to plastic bag littering7 (e.g. Convery et al. 2007). Nevertheless, up to the best of
our knowledge, there have been no systematic analyses of people’s preferences
with respect to forest littering. The Polish study attempts to address this problem
by using mainly stated preference methods.
See e.g.: M. Czajkowski, M. Buszko-Briggs, N. Hanley, Valuing changes in forest biodiversity,
“Ecological Economics” 2009 no. 68(12), p. 2910-2917.
2 A. Bartczak et al., Valuing forest recreation on the national level in a transition economy:
The case of Poland, “Forest Policy and Economics” 2008 no. 10(7-8), p. 467-472.
3 European Forest Sector Outlook Study 1960 – 2000 – 2020, Main report, Geneva 2005.
4 T. Żylicz, M. Giergiczny, Wycena pozaprodukcyjnych funkcji lasu, Raport końcowy dla Generalnej Dyrekcji Lasów Państwowych, Warszawa 2014.
5 See e.g.: S. L. Crump, D. L. Nunes, E. K. Crossman, The Effects of Litter on Littering Behavior in
a Forest Environment, “Environment and Behavior” 1977 no. 9(1), p. 137-146.
6 For a summary see: K. Thompson, Life after death: the role of litter in ecosystems, “Functional
Ecology” 2011, www.functionalecology.org [20-09-2014].
7 See e.g.: F. Convery, S. McDonnell, S. Ferreira, The most popular tax in Europe? Lessons from the
Irish plastic bags levy, “Environmental and Resource Economics” 2007 no. 38(1), p. 1-11.
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Survey design and data
In July 2009 focus group meetings were conducted at the University of Warsaw in order to determine patterns of forest visitations, as well as speci ic reasons for choosing alternative locations. There were four such meetings each involving four subjects. This exercise convinced us that there were basically two
key characteristics letting Poles choose among alternative forest locations.
As anticipated by economic theory, distance emerged as the most important single attribute of a forest considered. In addition, focus groups demonstrated that
littering was the second most important forest attribute considered by prospective visitors. This prompted us to design a survey to calculate WTP for reduced
forest littering.
Carried out by a professional polling agency in October-November 2009, the
survey included 709 respondents met in ive forest locations in Poland. The ive
forests can be considered representative for different habitats and neighbourhoods. They are located in the vicinity of towns serving as regional administrative capitals. There are 16 such units in Poland. The regions vary with respect to
the average forestation rate, species composition, and protection regime. Table 1
summarizes geographical and conservation characteristics of these sites.
Lasy Kozlowieckie (near Lublin) serve as an example of a forest in a mainly
agricultural region where urban population has relatively low opportunities to
select a place to visit. At the other extreme, visitors in Lasy Zielonogorskie (near
Zielona Gora) have such opportunities available in abundant supply. Many forested areas subject to a particular tourist pressure are protected as ‘Landscape Park’
(a protection regime lower than that of a ‘National Park’). However, one of the sites
selected (Lasy Zielonogorskie) does not enjoy any speci ic protection regime.
Tabl e 1
Characteristics of the forest sites
Site
Protection
regime
Forest type
Dom. species
Town
(inhabitants)
Regional forest
rate [%]
1
Puszcza Supraska
Landscape
park
Conifer.
Pine, Spruce
Bialystok
(294,000)
33
2
Lasy Kozlowieckie
Landscape
park
Mixed
Oak, Pine
Lublin
(352,000)
14
3
Puszcza Kozienicka
Landscape
park
Mixed
Oak, Pine
Radom
(225,000)
25
4
Puszcza Bukowa
Landscape
park
Broad-leaf.
Beech
Szczecin
(408,000)
32
5
Lasy Zielonogorskie
none
Conifer.
Pine
Zielona Gora
(118,000)
49
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Forest visitors were randomly polled along main paths, picnic areas and
parking places during the day time and all days of the week. The target group was
limited to adults only who came to the forest for recreation purposes. The questionnaire, which was tested in a pilot version by interviewing 50 respondents
and evaluated by forest experts, consisted of two main components with the irst
one aimed at revealing forest visit patterns and the second part aimed at soliciting peoples’ willingness to pay for reducing forest littering. The analysis presented in this paper is based on this second – Contingent Valuation (CV) – part. The
scenario in the CV part referred to prevention, as well as to clean-up, since prevention can never be fully effective. Speci ic wording used was as follows.
“Our programme of keeping the forests tidy envisages hiring workers who
remove the litter as well as those who try to prevent illegal dumping. In addition,
it requires investing in equipment, such as e.g. nice looking garbage bins located
by the forest entrances/exits. The cost of the programme will be partially inanced by the ines imposed on those convicted of littering. Nevertheless the
programme requires additional local taxes. The central government budget cannot be relied on in this case. The increased local tax revenues will go to the district forest management units (‘nadlesnictwa’) and they will be earmarked for
clean-up activities. The programme will be monitored by external specialists. Its
effects – i.e. the litter-free forest – will be visible in several months. However, in
order to maintain these effects, the programme should be inanced on a permanent basis.”
There were two WTP questions asked. One referred to the programme of reduced littering in the forest visited, and the second one to a wider programme of
reduced forest littering in the entire administrative region. The elicitation format
was a payment ladder with zero and 14 positive bids, selected along an exponential scale. Respondent could also choose the option ‘It is hard to say’. The payment
mechanism was described as the annual tax paid lifetime. A series of debrie ing
questions was used in order to identify protest responses.
The model
Since the WTP question referred to respondent’s maximum Willingness To Pay
identi ied on a payment ladder, we used interval regression model (with 0 as the
lower bound for the lowest interval and BID+1 as the upper bound for the highest
interval).
The model can be written as:
y* = xβ + ε, ε∼N[0, σ2]
y = j if A(j) ≤ y* ≤ A(j+1) and j = 0, 1, 2, …
where
y – indicates the WTP, x – the vector of explanatory variables, β – parameters,
A – the number of bid on the payment ladder, ε – the error term normally
distributed.
(1)
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In this case, the loglikelihood function is given by:
ே
‫ ܮ‬ൌ ෍ ݈݊ ൤Ȱ ൬
௜ୀଵ
where
ܷ‫ܤ‬௜ െ ‫ߚݔ‬
‫ܤܮ‬௜ െ ‫ߚݔ‬
൰ െ Ȱ൬
൰൨
ߪ
ߪ
(2)
Φ is the normal cumulative distribution function, LBi and UBi denote, respectively, the lower and the upper bounds of the individual i’s WTP interval.
However, as noted by Cameron and Huppert8 (1989), using mid-points as
proxies for the dependent variable in the standard OLS procedure produces biased results. The raw estimates were thus log-transformed in order to account
for the naturally skewed distribution (Cameron and Huppert 1989, Lindhjem and
Navrud 2011, Ahtiainen et al. 2012)9. Thus our mean WTP can be estimated as:
E(WTP)=exp(xβ+σ2/2)
(3)
Tabl e 2
Explanatory variables used in the interval regression model
Acronym
Description
GEN
Gender, dummy variable 1 for males
EDP
Education, dummy variable 1 for primary education
EDH
Education, dummy variable 1 for higher education
AGE
Age continuous variable (years)
INC
Net monthly income, continuous variable (in 100 PLN)
Δ+I
Future income, dummy variable 1 for income perceived as growing over the last 5 years
Δ-I
Future income, dummy variable 1 for income perceived as declining over the last 5 years
Δ?I
Future income, dummy variable 1 for respondents who were uncertain about their incomes
over the last 5 years
VIS
Number of visits in a forest over the last 12 months, continuous variable
LIT
Littering, dummy variable 1 if respondent spotted an illegal dumping site in the forest
BIA
Białystok, dummy variable 1 for respondents interviewed in Puszcza Supraska
LUB
Lublin, dummy variable 1 for respondents interviewed in Lasy Kozlowieckie
RAD
Radom, dummy variable 1 for respondents interviewed in Puszcza Kozienicka
SZC
Szczecin, dummy variable 1 for respondents interviewed in Puszcza Bukowa
POP
Population of the neighbouring town (in thousands of inhabitants) continuous variable
T.A. Cameron, D.D. Huppert, Ols versus Ml estimation of non-market resource values with payment card interval data, “Journal of Environmental Economics and Management” 1989 no. 17(3),
p. 230-246.
9 See e.g.: Ibidem; H. Lindhjem, S. Navrud, Are Internet surveys an alternative to face-to-face interviews in contingent valuation? “Ecological Economics” 2011 no. 70(9), p. 1628-1637; H. Ahtiainen, et
al., Bene its of meeting nutrient reduction targets for the Baltic Sea – a contingent valuation study in
the nine coastal states, “Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy” 2014 no. 3(3), p. 278-30.
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In order to explain WTP choices in terms of respondent and site characteristics we applied the explanatory variables described in Table 2.
Results
Respondents’ perception of the scenario was fairly positive. Likert-like scale
(1 – negative, 2 – neither negative nor positive, 3 – slightly positive, 4 – rather
positive, 5 – de initely positive) was used. Percentage of respondents who chose
5 to describe their attitude towards the programme of reduced littering in the
forest they visit was 27%; percentage of those who chose 5 for the programme of
reduced littering in all the forests in the region was even higher: 46%. In both
cases there was an option ‘no opinion’. Only 4%-5% chose this option.
Respondents were also asked about reasons for visiting this particular forest.
As anticipated, little littering ranked high on the list. As much as 27% of respondents indicated that littering was decisive when they selected a forest to visit. The
shares of those who pointed at biodiversity and tourist infrastructure were
somewhat higher – 35%.
Several questions addressed littering. 42% of respondents admitted spotting
some litter such as plastic bags, cans or pieces of paper. 9% characterized the
forest as ‘excessively littered’. 29% saw illegal dumping sites. 20% declared that
they would visit the forest more frequently, if it was less littered. Most of them
declared at least a 50% increase of their visitation rate.
Table 3 shows the Willingness To Pay results for those respondents whose
WTP declarations were positive (81% of respondents stated that they were willing to pay to reduce littering in the forest visited and 83% declared they would
like to pay for cleaning all the forests in their administrative regions). To estimate
the mean WTP the interval regression was run without covariates and bootstrapped using 500 repetitions to obtain 95% con idence intervals. The protesters (8% of the sample) were excluded from the analysis. We identi ied them using
the following responses to debrie ing statements: ‘Strongly disagree’ with the
statement ‘The program can be implemented within a few years’; and ‘Strongly
disagree’ with the statement ‘The money collected would indeed be used in an
ef icient way to clean up the forest’.
Table 4 presents our interval regression models (I for the visited site, and II
for all the forests in the administrative region) investigating determinants for
WTP in order to reduce littering in forests. The dependent variable is WTP identi ied through the payment ladder. As explained in Section 3 above, explanatory
variables are gender, age, education, net income, prediction of income change
over the next 5 years, number of forest visits, spotting by the respondent an illegal dumping site in the visited forest, size of the neighbouring town and dummies
for the forest sites analyzed.
An important result of both estimations is the statistically signi icant (positive) value of βLIT, i.e. the parameter of the dummy variable LIT recording the fact
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Tabl e 3
WTP for reduced forest littering [PLN]
Category
Mean WTP
Standard Error
95% Conf. Interval
Single (visited) forest
27.45
1.76
24.00 – 30.90
All forests in administrative region
35.61
2.44
30.83 – 40.40
Tabl e 4
Results of the interval regression models
Category
Model I
WTP for clean-up of this forest
Coefficient (β)
Model II
WTP for clean-up of all the forests in the region
Robust standard error
Coefficient (β)
Robust standard error
GEN
-5.61
5.27
-6.39
6.65
EDP
0.02
0.13
-0.29*
0.18
EDH
-2.68
5.30
-12.17
8.66
AGE
5.07
5.43
-7.86
6.84
INC
0.45**
0.23
0.57*
0.31
Δ+I
10.87
7.40
14.38*
8.76
Δ-I
-17.13
18.70
-16.43
21.93
Δ?I
-1.46
4.98
-2.26
6.25
VIS
0.13***
0.04
0.18***
0.05
LIT
14.57***
5.05
20.67***
7.76
BIA
-27.41**
11.63
-39.29***
13.05
LUB
-0.83
9.63
9.54
10.46
RAD
-22.99**
10.19
-27.31**
10.72
SZC
-28.06**
13.83
-26.20*
14.17
POP
0.04***
0.02
0.04**
0.02
18.45
13.48
36.33**
17.85
Constant
Log-pseudolikelihood
-1619.23
-1682.93
48.74(15)***
76.87(15)***
Pseudo-R2
9%
12%
Number of observations
573
621
Chi2 (df)
*,**,*** signi icance at 0.1, 0.05 and 0.01 levels, respectively. In our analysis we excluded protesters, those respondents
who did not declare their income, and those who were uncertain about their WTP.
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that respondent had a recent experience of forest littering. It suggests that littering is indeed perceived as a disamenity which can be mitigated effectively.
Discussion
WTP estimates indicate that people are willing to pay for reduced forest littering, although the amount depends on many factors. First, and perhaps most
important is its positive and signi icant correlation with the number of visits.
Respondents understand that the use value derived from their multiple visits will
be enhanced if the litter reduction programme is implemented. Additionally,
WTP declarations differ widely between sites. Lasy Zielonogorskie hosts respondents who stated highest bids; the other four sites were characterized by
lower bids. This could have been in luenced by extremely high bids declared by
few respondents interviewed; nevertheless we did not decide to exclude these
observations as they were below the peak of the ladder (the top numbers were
not declared by anybody). Some of the socio-economic characteristics – like income and age – are taken care by variables listed in section 3 above. The geographical characteristics is captured by the variable POP explaining the intensity
of recreational demand. As anticipated, it is positive and signi icant. However,
there may be a number of other important factors contained in site-speci ic dummies. The data gathered do not allow for more speci ic interpretations.
We confronted the WTP data with additional observations on the forest-littering problem. Two supplementary qualitative (in-depth) surveys were carried
out: one with local of icials, and another one with forest managers. The irst one
included 25 respondents. Most of them (61%) admitted that their municipalities
suffered from forest littering. On the other hand, a much smaller fraction (38%)
admitted that their municipality had an illegal dumping site. It seems that some
of the of icials refuse to acknowledge that they fail to manage the household
waste in their jurisdictions. The second one included 38 respondents. All of them
(100%) admitted that their forests were littered. Most of them (87%) admitted
there were illegal dumping sites in forests. These two problems dominated over
all the other ones listed, like stealing timber, excessive populations of some herbivores, poaching, and loss of lora and fauna. It seems that foresters are fully
aware of the forest littering problem.
As revealed in another study10, littering turned out to be the most important
single factor explaining attitudes towards forests. Respondents in that study
were concerned with the problem mainly because forest littering compromised
their consumer surplus from forest recreation. In a Choice Experiment, the implicit price calculated for the attribute ‘50% reduction in forest littering’ ranged
from 4.97 € for non-users to 7.97 € for users, and for the attribute ‘90% reduc10 M. Czajkowski et al., Providing Preference-Based Support for Forest Ecosystem Service Management in Poland, “Forest Policy and Economics” 2014 no. 39, p. 1-12.
tion in forest littering’ ranged from 5.34 € for non-users to 11.76 € for users.
These results are somewhat higher than calculated in this study, but they refer to
a national scenario rather than a local one.
This study was carried out as a part of the POLFOREX project (“Forest as a public good. Evaluation of social and environmental bene its of forests in Poland to improve management ef iciency”;
PL0257) funded by EEA Financial Mechanism, Norwegian Financial Mechanism and Polish
Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Funding support is gratefully acknowledged.
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Damian Panasiuk
ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS FOR EXPLOITATION
VARIANTS OF RACIBÓRZ DRY POLDER
Damian Panasiuk, Ph.D.
– Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw
Faculty of Biology and Environmental Sciences
Woycickiego 1/3, 01-938 Warsaw
KOSZTY ŚRODOWISKOWE WARIANTÓW EKSPLOATACJI POLDERU
RACIBÓRZ
STRESZCZENIE: Celem badań była wycena kosztów środowiskowych związanych z różnymi wariantami eksploatacji polderu Racibórz Dolny na Odrze. Dla czterech wariantów odpływu wody z polderu (woda 2-letnia, 5-letnia,
10-letnia i 20-letnia) określono powierzchnię zagrożonych obszarów Natura 2000 i innych ekosystemów. Wycena
metodą wskaźnikową wykazała znaczną przewagę wariantu III z najsłabszą ochroną przeciwpowodziową
(zatrzymywanie wody 20-letniej lub większej). Wariant ten zagrozi tylko 2% powierzchni siedlisk Natura 2000
w dole rzeki i nie zaszkodzi lasom w czaszy polderu, generując 37 razy mniejsze koszty środowiskowe niż wariant I.
SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: świadczenia ekosystemów, koszty środowiskowe, wycena środowiska, polder Racibórz, Natura 2000
Introduction
Natural river valleys are valuable habitats and supply ecological services.
Construction of dam and out low control can signi icantly change hydrographic
conditions downstream. Modern investments in water management should balance lood control of population and protection of wetlands. Dry polders are areas for temporal water retention in case of bigger river lows. They are alternative
for construction of conventional water reservoirs with permanent pool.
Racibórz dry polder is one of rare large investments in contemporary water
management in Poland. Serious plans of construction were undertaken after catastrophic lood on Oder river in 1997. Feasibility study1 from 2003 proposed
destined construction of water reservoir. In 2005 irst environmental impact assessment (EIA) report2 was prepared for investment. This report was rejected
next year by Polish Ministry of Environment, because report not showed impact
of investment on Natura 2000 areas in Oder valley downstream dam. Such assessment was included in EIA for „Project of lood control for Oder valley”3 which
covered also construction of Racibórz dam.
New EIA report4 prepared in 2009 assumed construction of dry polder instead of water reservoir. This report was completed in 2011 and environmental
approval was valid in next year. Construction of dry polder started in 2013 and is
planned to inish in 2017.
Exploitation variants of Racibórz dry polder
Decrease of frequency of wetlands looding downstream dam could be main
danger for nature associated with exploitation of water reservoir in Racibórz.
According to results of simulations for lood wave with probability of occurrence
once a 10 years, water level in Oder could drop by 1.0-2.5 m on distance 150 km
down Racibórz.
Regular looding is important for conservation and longevity of different terrestrial and water ecosystems. Especially habitats located above river are exposed to low limitation. Willow-poplar riparian forests are substituted by
1 Studium wykonalności zbiornika Racibórz Dolny na rzece Odrze. Raport główny, Warszawa 2003.
Zbiornik przeciwpowodziowy Racibórz Dolny. Raport o oddziaływaniu inwestycji na środowisko, Warszawa 2005.
3 Projekt ochrony przeciwpowodziowej doliny Odry. Ocena oddziaływania na środowisko. Streszczenie, Warszawa-Gliwice-Wrocław 2005.
4 Raport o oddziaływaniu na środowisko przedsięwzięcia polegającego na budowie zbiornika
przeciwpowodziowego Racibórz Dolny na rzece Odrze woj. śląskie – polder, Warszawa 2009.
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oak-hornbeam forests (dry-ground forests) which are accommodated to looding
lack. Rare alder-ash riparian forests can totally disappear5.
In second EIA report three variants for exploitation of Racibórz dry polder
were proposed6:
• variant I, proposed by investor, with assumption of out low from dry polder
equal to 2-year lood (running of reservoir for lows higher 470 m3/s); in result areas presently looded once a 5 year or less frequently would be devoid
of looding with disappearance of habitats (96% of Natura 2000 areas);
• variant II, called „rational alternative variant”, with assumption of out low
from dry polder equal to 5-year lood (780 m3/s); in result areas presently
looded once a 10 year or less frequently would be devoid of looding with
losses of 43% of Natura 2000 areas;
• variant III, called „the most bene icial for nature”, with weaker lood control
(showed risk of ground water-logging for 35 localities) and assumption of
out low from dry polder equal to 20-year lood (1210 m3/s); in result areas
presently looded once a 20 year or more frequently would be preserved and
only 2% of Natura 2000 areas would be losses.
Other variant analysed by the Ministry of Environment7 – out low from dry
polder equal to 10-year lood (1070 m3/s) with losses of 27% of Natura 2000
areas was not considered in this EIA report. Variants of out low of 50-year lood
(1800 m3/s) or 100-year lood (2300 m3/s) were also not considered, although
initial reservoir conception assumed interception only catastrophic waters. It is
important that Oder lood embankments were constructed for 100-year lood.
These variants could eliminate problem of dry polder impact on priority habitats
– willow-poplar riparian forests.
In dry polder bowl negative impact of exploitation was expected in result of
destruction of riparian forests in situation of often and long looding with height
2-3 m above ground level. For each variant oxbow lake on Plinc (Plęśnica) stream
with area 220 ha will be destructed by construction of dam8.
Variant III with reduction of low to 1210 m3/s ( lood with probability of occurrence once a 20 years) was inally chosen for implementation. This variant joins
considerably less intervention in Oder water regime (leaving of approximate to
natural lows in river bed) with lood control. Variant III also allows to preserve
Natura 2000 habitats in dry polder bowl. Time for maximum water damming (3-4
days) is too short for negative impact on habitats of forest „Las koło Tworkowa”.
Additionally obligation for environmental compensation9 was determined in decision of the General Directorate for Environmental Protection (GDOŚ).
Projekt ochrony…, op. cit., p. 25.
Raport o oddziaływaniu…, op. cit., p. 173.
7 Projekt ochrony…, op. cit., p. 25.
8 D. Panasiuk, R. Miłaszewski, Koszty środowiskowe realizacji obiektów hydrotechnicznych na przykładzie zbiornika Racibórz, in: Studium środowiskowych i społecznych kosztów rozbudowy infrastruktury technicznej w województwie śląskim oraz sposoby ich minimalizacji, Katowice 2010.
9 Analiza wpływu przedsięwzięcia „Budowa zbiornika przeciwpowodziowego Racibórz Dolny na rzece Odrze, woj. śląskie (polder)” na stan wód oraz zgodności projektu z art. 4(7) RDW, copied material.
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Impact on habitats for different dry polder exploitation variants
Following Natura 2000 special areas of conservation (SACs) are located in
Oder valley below dam and in scope of dry polder impact:
• “Łęg Zdzieszowicki” (site code PLH160011) with surface 619.9 ha – elm-ash
riparian forests, oxbow lakes and dry-ground forests;
• “Żywocickie Łęgi” (PLH160019) with surface 101.7 ha – willow-poplar riparian forests;
• “Ujście Nysy i Stobrawy” (on “Shadow List 2010”) with surface 4961.6 ha –
elm-ash and willow-poplar riparian forests, alluvial meadows and others,
oxbow lakes and dry-ground forests;
• “Grądy w Dolinie Odry” (PLH020017) with surface 8348.9 ha – dry-ground
forests, elm-ash and willow-poplar riparian forests, alluvial meadows and
others, oxbow lakes.
In valley downstream there are also special protection area (SPA) “Grądy
Odrzańskie” (PLB020002) with surface 19999.3 ha, nature reserves, landscape
parks, nature and landscape complexes, ecological sites and natural monuments10. There are following protected areas in dry polder bowl and its surroundings:
• SAC “Las koło Tworkowa” (PLH240040) with surface 115.1 ha (projected nature reserve) – elm-ash and willow-poplar riparian forests;
• SPA “Stawy Wielikąt i Ligota Tworkowska” (PLB240003) with surface 914.5
ha, covered ponds Wielikąt (nature and landscape complex) and forest Las
Tworkowski;
• natural valuable: oxbow lake on Oder in Sudół surroundings, oxbow lake on
Plinc stream with ponds close Brzezie and exploitation hollow close Nieboczowy11.
Surface of ecosystems which could disappear for respective exploitation variants of Racibórz dry polder are showed in table 1. From among 38 thous. ha of
areas in Oder valley downstream dam and looded once a 50 year or often, calculation covered 4968 ha of the most natural valuable ecosystems sensitive to
looding absence (Natura 2000 habitats) and 8 thous. ha of remaining green
crops. Additionally 522 ha of forests and meadows in dry polder bowl were considered. They will stop to serve production function but will be looding areas.
Impact of dry polder exploitation variants on water ecosystems and arable
grounds in dry polder bowl was not considered.
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Natura 2000, www.natura2000.gdos.gov.pl [23-09-2014].
Raport o oddziaływaniu…, op. cit., p. 497.
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Ta b l e 1
Surface of lost ecosystems for exploitation variants of Racibórz dry polder
Reduction of surface for exploitation variants [ha]
Ecosystems
variant I (reduction
to 2-year flood)
variant II (reduction
to 5-year flood)
reduction
to 10-year flood
variant III (reduction
to 20-year flood)
Natura 2000 habitats downstream dry polder
3150 (oxbow lakes, Natura 2000)
6440 (alluvial meadows, Natura 2000)
6510 (other meadows, Natura 2000)
*91E0 (willow-poplar riparian forests,
Natura 2000)
91F0 (elm-ash riparian forests, Natura 2000)
2330 (dunes, Natura 2000)
Total Natura 2000 habitats sensitive
to looding absence
281.20
137.81
49.61
0.17
200.24
41.48
20.59
0.00
1 410.17
693.29
311.59
59.20
425.50
136.04
91.04
8.13
2 440.40
1 118.30
879.59
47.52
2.07
0.00
0.00
0.00
4 759.58
2 126.92
1 352.42
115.02
6 460.31
5 298.23
3 435.39
1 335.19
161.51
161.51
161.51
0.00
Remaining ecosystems downstream dry polder
remaining green crops
Habitats in dry polder bowl
forests and coppices
TOTAL
360.04
360.04
360.04
0.00
11 926.00
8 131.26
5 493.92
1 450.21
Source: D. Panasiuk, R. Miłaszewski, Koszty środowiskowe…, op. cit.
Index method of environmental cost valuation
For valuation of environmental costs, index method based on Costanza at
al.12 results in 1994 dollars was used. These numbers are global averages and in
future using of local valuations could be more appropriate. However these valuations are not available presently.
Average value of ecological services provided by ecosystems of lakes and rivers were valued by Costanza’s team on 8 498 USD/ha annually, ecosystems of
wetlands – 14 785 USD/ha annually (swamps/ loodplains – 19 580 USD/ha),
ecosystems of temperate forests – 302 USD/ha annually, ecosystems of grass/
rangelands – 232 USD/ha annually, and other green crops – only 92 USD/ha annually13.
12 R. Costanza et al., The value of the world’s ecosystems services and natural capital, “Nature”
1997 no. 387, p. 253-260.
13 D. Panasiuk, Wartość środowiska w analizach kosztów i korzyści zbiorników wodnych w Polsce, „Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2010 no. 1(37), p. 167-175.
These services are mainly non-market. Swamps and loodplains are ecosystems, which were valued, by Costanza’s team, 2 times higher than services of water ecosystem with the same surface. Ecosystem services provided by loodplains
composes of:
• water supply (provisioning of water by watersheds, natural reservoirs and
aquifers and next draining in drought period) – 39%;
• limited lood control (part of disturbance regulation) as retention of lower
lood waters in natural polder – 37%;
• recreational and cultural values – 11%;
• waste treatment (recovery of mobile nutrients) – 8%;
• other services as gas regulation – 4%.
Services provided by grass/rangelands composes of food production, nutrient control and erosion control. In result of looding limitation these services
could be lost or substituted by services provided by arti icial reservoir ( lood
control and water retention). Services provided by temperate forests are raw material and food production (wood and ground cover), climate regulation, nutrient
control and recreation14.
Global rough numbers can seem too simple, but they are not complicated and
more communicable for practitioners as water management experts or other engineers. Żylicz15 pays attention to simpli ication and lacks in estimations made by
Costanza’s team. However he ascertained they are useful reference and probably
order of magnitude between ecosystem services of wetlands and forests is preserved16.
Costanza’s team estimation was used for example in WWF Polska elaboration17 concerning valuation of areas looded by damming of Włocławek reservoir
in 1970. Indexes of ecosystem services were multiplied by surfaces of different
habitats with rate 4 PLN/USD and next capitalised using three different discount
rates18.
Environmental costs for different dry polder exploitation variants
For estimation of environmental costs associated with exploitation of Racibórz dry polder, values of ecosystem services converted to Polish złoty with purchasing power parity rate 2 PLN/USD, were used.
D. Panasiuk, Wycena świadczeń ekosystemów zbiornika Goczałkowice wraz z otoczeniem,
Katowice 2012.
15 T. Żylicz, Wycena usług ekosystemów. Przegląd wyników badań światowych, „Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2010 no. 1(37), p. 31-45.
16 T. Żylicz, Valuating ecosystem services, „Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2012 no. 2(42), p. 18-38.
17 Studium kompleksowego rozwiązania problemów stopnia i zbiornika Włocławek. Prognoza
skutków społeczno-ekonomicznych i środowiskowych, Warszawa 2001.
18 D. Panasiuk, op. cit., p. 172.
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Ta b l e 2
Environmental costs connected with exploitation variants of Racibórz dry polder
Losses of ecological services [million PLN annually]
Ecosystems
to 2-year flood)
to 5-year flood)
reduction
to 10-year flood
to 20-year flood)
Natura 2000 habitats downstream dry polder
3150 (oxbow lakes, Natura 2000)
6440 (alluvial meadows, Natura 2000)
11.01
5.40
1.94
0.01
7.84
1.62
0.81
0.00
6510 (other meadows, Natura 2000)
55.22
27.15
12.20
2.32
*91E0 (willow-poplar riparian forests, Natura 2000)
16.66
5.33
3.57
0.32
91F0 (elm-ash riparian forests,
Natura 2000)
95.57
43.79
34.44
1.86
0.08
0.00
0.00
0.00
186.39
83.29
52.96
4.50
3.00
2.46
1.59
0.62
forests and coppices
0.10
0.10
0.10
0.00
0.17
0.17
0.17
0.00
189.65
86.01
54.82
5.12
2330 (dunes, Natura 2000)
Total Natura 2000 habitats sensitive to looding absence
Remaining ecosystems downstream dry polder
remaining green crops
Habitats in dry polder bowl
TOTAL
Source: D. Panasiuk, R. Miłaszewski, Koszty środowiskowe…, op. cit.; D. Panasiuk, Wartość środowiska…, op. cit., p. 174.
For Natura 2000 habitats located in scope of dry polder impact and sensitive
to looding absence, ecosystem services index 39 160 PLN/ha annually for loodplains was used. For remaining green crops in Oder valley located downstream
dam and for meadows and pastures in dry polder bowl index 464 PLN/ha was
taken. For forests and coppices in dry polder bowl it was index 604 PLN/ha. Table
2 shows environmental costs calculated for these assumptions.
Environmental costs were estimated on level 190 million PLN annually for
variant I of dry polder exploitation, 86 million PLN/year for variant II, 55 million
PLN/year for capturing of 10-year lood and only 5 million PLN/year for variant
III. These costs for variant I would be 37 times more than for inally chosen variant III. For loods other than catastrophic ones, natural loodplains deliver high
level of lood control services.
After cost capitalisation for 30-years period, environmental costs for variant
I are equal to 3.3 billion PLN (with discount rate 4%) and 2.1 billion PLN (with
discount rate 8%). For variant II these costs were estimated on level 1.0-1.5 billion PLN, for capturing of 10-year lood – 0.6-1.0 billion PLN, and for variant III
– only 58-89 million PLN, see Table 3.
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Tabl e 3
Annual and capitalised environmental costs connected with exploitation variants of Racibórz dry polder
Environmental costs
Annual costs
Losses of ecological services
(million PLN annually)
to 2-year flood)
to 5-year flood)
reduction to
10-year flood
to 20-year flood)
190
86
55
5
30-year capitalisation, r = 4%
3 279
1 487
948
89
30-year capitalisation, r = 8%
2 135
968
617
58
Source: D. Panasiuk, R. Miłaszewski, Koszty środowiskowe…, op. cit.
Of course capitalised environmental costs for discount rate 8% are lower
than these costs calculated for discount rate 4%.
Conclusions
Comparative analysis of losses in ecosystems show that lower level of environmental costs will be achieved for inally chosen variant III of dry polder exploitation (running of reservoir for lows higher than 20-year lood). However
only variants of reservoir running for bigger lows could allow totally preserve
priority habitats.
Analysis of available elaborations allowed to estimate surfaces of natural valuable loodplains and meadows, which could be exposed to ground overdrying in
result of implementation of respective exploitation dry polder variants. Calculated environmental costs cover only use value of ecosystem but not consider their
option and existence values. Currency rate and in lation are sources of next uncertainties. Using of local Polish estimations could decrease level of environmental costs but consideration of signi icance of ecological corridors could increase
these costs. These reasons limit use of absolute numbers for environmental costs.
Estimation of environmental costs for exploitation variants of Racibórz dry polder was made in
framework of works on elaboration „Study on environmental and social costs of development of
technical infrastructure in Silesia province and measures of their minimisation”. Author thanks to
Centre for Natural Heritage of Upper Silesia (CDPGŚ) in Katowice for works inancing.
Andrzej Affek • Anna Kowalska
BENEFITS OF NATURE. A PILOT STUDY
ON THE PERCEPTION OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
Andrzej Affek, Ph.D.
Anna Kowalska, Ph.D.
Organization Polish Academy of Sciences
Organization Polish Academy of Sciences
Department of Geoecology and Climatology
KORZYSTANIE Z DOBRODZIEJSTW PRZYRODY.
PILOTAŻOWE BADANIA DOTYCZĄCE PERCEPCJI
KORZYŚCI PŁYNĄCYCH Z EKOSYSTEMÓW
STRESZCZENIE: W artykule zaprezentowano wyniki badań kwestionariuszowych przeprowadzonych wśród
mieszkańców i turystów w wytypowanych miejscowościach gminy Nowinka (województwo podlaskie). Celem
badań było określenie rzeczywistego korzystania z dobrodziejstw przyrody pochodzących z lokalnych ekosystemów oraz rozpoznanie poziomu wiedzy respondentów dotyczącej czerpania z nich korzyści. Zastosowano metodę door-to-door. Wskazano, jakie świadczenia ekosystemów są rozpoznawane i cenione przez lokalną społeczność oraz czynniki różnicujące poziom świadomości badanych i rzeczywiste wykorzystanie świadczeń na terenie
badań.
SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: ankieta door-to-door, pytania otwarte vs pytania zamknięte, Suwalszczyzna i Ziemia Augustowska
Introduction
Human well-being depends on many services provided by nature including
food, steady supply of clean water, recreation or protection from natural hazards
etc. The state of the environment and the following ecosystem services supply
are affected by human activities, which cause their damage and reduction or improvement and increase1. This strong connection seems to be widely-known to
scientists but not to the general public2. In many cases bene its that people derive
from ecosystems3 or ecosystem processes4 are taken for granted and people are
unaware of their importance to them. This concerns for example water low regulation, carbon sequestration or soil formation. Therefore, ecosystem values are
not the most important in decisions relating to natural resources. To increase
public awareness and participation in environmental decision-making, especially in regions with a signi icant share of protected areas, research on identi ication
and valuation of ecosystem services among local communities have been undertaken5. Beside predominant economic valuation6, noneconomic social valuation
has been also commonly used in the decision-making processes7. Usually, it is
based on social science methodology (individual in-depth interviews, questionnaires etc.)8, because this way of collecting data shows satisfactory response
rates9.
A. McMichael et al., Linking Ecosystem Services and Human Well-being, in: D. Capistrano (ed.),
Multiscale Assessments, “The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Series” 2005 no. 4, p. 43-60.
2 R. Costanza et al., The value of the world’s ecosystem services and natural capital, “Nature”
1997 no. 387, p. 253-260.
3 MEA, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Washington D.C. 2005.
4 R. Tirri et al., Elsevier’s Dictionary of Biology, Amsterdam 1998; K.J. Wallace, Classi ication of
ecosystem services: Problems and solutions, “Biological Conservation” 2007 no. 139, p. 235246.
5 C.M. Raymond et al., Mapping community values for natural capital and ecosystem services,
“Ecological Economics” 2009 no. 68(5), p. 1301-1315; A. Pietrzyk-Kaszyńska, M. Grodzińska-Jurczak, Ecosystem services perception. The example of local governments representatives in
Małopolska voivodship, “Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2012 no. 2(42), p. 83-90; G. Brown, J.M. Montag, K. Lyon, Public Participation GIS: A Method for Identifying Ecosystem Services, “Society and
Natural Resources” 2012 no. 25, p. 633-651; N.S. Sodhi et al., Local people value environmental
services provided by forested parks, “Biodiversity and Conservation” 2010 no. 19, p. 1175-1188.
6 T. Żylicz, Valuating ecosystem services, „Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2012 no. 2(42), p. 18-38.
7 M. Kumar, P. Kumar, Valuation of the ecosystem services: A psycho-cultural perspective, “Ecological Economics” 2008 no. 64(4), p. 808-819.
8 C.M. Raymond et al., Mapping community values for natural capital and ecosystem services,
“Ecological Economics” 2009 no. 68(5), p. 1301-1315; A. Pietrzyk-Kaszyńska, M. Grodzińska-Jurczak, Ecosystem services perception. The example of local governments representatives in
Małopolska voivodship, „Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2012 no. 2(42), p. 83-90.
9 G. Brown, Mapping spatial attributes in survey research for natural resource management:
Methods and applications, “Society and Natural Resources” 2005 no. 18, p. 1-23; L. Tyrvainen,
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This paper presents the results of questionnaire carried out among inhabitants and tourists staying in the selected localities of Nowinka commune (Podlasie voivodship). The aim of the study was to quantify the actual use of local ecosystem services and to examine respondents’ knowledge and attitude towards
bene its deriving from them. We investigated (i) which ecosystem services are
recognized and valued in the community and (ii) what are the factors that differentiate respondents in relation to the level of awareness of ecosystem services
and their actual use in the study area.
Methods
The pilot survey was carried out in June 2014 in Nowinka commune. This
rural commune encompasses 203,84 km2 located in Augustowska Plain (53°56′N,
22°58′E). Forests comprise over 63% of its area, while arable lands about 16%
and grasslands over 10%. Lakes cover about 10%. Lands of great natural value
exceed 84% of the area. The population density of the commune accounts for
14 inhabitants/km2 10.
The questionnaire was distributed by two researchers among residents and
tourists staying in 16 villages of Nowinka commune. The method door-to-door
was applied. In total, 117 questionnaires were collected back. The survey was
anonymous. The questionnaire was divided into 3 parts. The irst section comprised 4 open-ended questions concerning the use of local ecosystem services,
the second presented the complex list of 45 ecosystem services with possibility
to indicate the frequency of use, the last contained a set of socio-demographic
questions regarding age, sex, education, source of income, place of residence etc.
The scienti ic term ecosystem services was not used in the questionnaire. We replaced it by more colloquial and intelligible phrase bene its of nature.
Data from the questionnaires were entered into the computer and uploaded
to the statistical program (SPSS ver. 17). Responses to open-ended questions
were standardized in terms of writing and meaning and were transformed into
binary variables. A set of socio-demographic variables were used for comparisons between subgroups. Pearson’s chi-squared test was used as a test of independence to assess whether paired observations on two variables, expressed in a
contingency table, are independent of each other (e.g. responses from people of
different sexes to see if one’s sex is related to the response). Pearson’s chi-squared
test (χ2) was applied to evaluate how likely it is that any observed difference between the sets arose by chance.
K. Makinen, J. Schipperjin, Tools for mapping social values of urban woodlands and other green
areas, “Landscape and Urban Planning” 2007 no. 79(1), p. 5-19.
10 Bank Danych Lokalnych 2014, www.wroclaw.stat.gov.pl [20-09-2014].
Results
Respondents
Of 117 respondents interviewed, 65% were female and 35% male. The majority of them (58%) were between 30 and 60 years old, 21% were under 30 and
about 20% were above 60. Most respondents reported having secondary (52%)
or higher (41%) education. Farming, mental work or pension were the most frequent income sources among surveyed people. The study was carried out in the
rural area. More than 66% of respondents were permanent rural residents, while
34% came from towns and cities. The majority of the respondents who declared
themselves as urban permanent residents were second-home owners. Only few
of them were short-term visitors.
Ecosystem services recognized and valued in the community
Fresh and clean air was the most frequently mentioned ecosystem service in
respondents’ answers to the general open question of the irst section. It was
followed by some provisioning services, like a supply of forest fruits, mushrooms
and fuel wood, along with a set of cultural services e.g. scenic values, recreation,
rest and relaxation, silence and tranquility (Figure 1). The between-group comparison showed different approach to ecosystem services among respondents,
particularly when place of permanent residency was the grouping variable
(Figure 2)11. In general, rural residents focused on provisioning services while
urban residents paid more attention to cultural services. Interestingly, these differences did not occur when the real use of ecosystem services is considered.
Actual use of local ecosystem services
According to the results of the second section, obtained for the closed questions, actual use of local ecosystem services proved to be much higher than it was
originally declared by respondents in open questions (Figure 3). Statistically signi icant differences between rural and urban residents in terms of actual use of
services only occur in the case of fuel wood (χ2=6,63; p=0,01).
Other between-group comparisons showed that, for instance, women signi icantly more
often mentioned herbs (χ2=4,07; p=0,04) and contact with nature (χ2=5,98; p=0,01) as beneits of nature. Better educated respondents listed generally more bene its. They pointed more
often to scenic values (χ2=7,64; p=0,02), health (χ2=8,65; p=0,01), silence/tranquility (χ2=6,85;
p=0,03) and rest/relaxation (χ2=11,35; p=0,00).
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Fi g u re 1
Benefits of nature recognized by respondents
Summary of the responses to the following open question (responses occurring more than 3 times): “Please
think for a while and list the bene its
you derive from the nature of Suwałki
and Augustów Region. There are no
right or wrong answers, good or bad
understanding of what the bene its of
nature are. Please respond according to
what intuition tells you.”
Fi g u re 2
Benefits of nature recognized by respondents. Comparison between rural and urban residents
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Fi gu re 3
Responses to open and closed questions about the benefits of nature
Discussion and conclusions
Contrary to our skeptical surmise, shared by other researchers12, local community has the capacity to identify bene its of nature and their use in the region.
Our results are in line with the observations of Pereira et al., Sodhi et al. and
Brown et al.13; the latter described wide knowledge about nature and a strong
connection to the outdoors among participants of their study in Colorado.
N.S. Sodhi et al., Local people value environmental services provided by forested parks, “Biodiversity and Conservation” 2010 no. 19, p. 1175-1188; J. Ghazoul, Challenges to the uptake of
the ecosystem services rationale for conservation, “Conservation Biology” 2007 no. 21, p. 16511652; C. Kremen, G.C. Daily, A.M. Klein, D. Sco ield, Inadequate assessment of the ecosystem service
rationale for conservation: reply to Ghazoul, “Conservation Biology” 2008 no. 22, p. 795-798.
13 E. Pereira, C. Queiroz, H.M. Pereira, L. Vicente, Ecosystem services and human well-being:
a participatory study in a mountain community in Portugal, “Ecology and Society” 2005 no.
10(2), p. 14-36; N.S. Sodhi et al., Local people value environmental services provided by forested
parks, “Biodiversity and Conservation” 2010 no. 19, p. 1175-1188; G. Brown, J.M. Montag,
K. Lyon, Public Participation GIS: A Method for Identifying Ecosystem Services, “Society and Natural Resources” 2012 no. 25, p. 633-651.
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Local people’s awareness of nature’s bene its largely correspond to the scienti ic knowledge developed under the concept of ecosystem services. Within answers to open-ended questions a wide range of ecosystem services was listed,
including provisioning, cultural and regulating services provided by local environment (supporting services considered as processes necessary to provide
most of the direct bene its). Fresh and clean air (regulating service) was the most
frequently mentioned ecosystem bene it in respondents’ answers. This result is
in contrast to previous reports, which showed that identi ication of regulating
services by non-specialists is a challenge14, while cultural and provisioning services are directly experienced and intuitively appreciated15.
Rural residents attach greater importance to material bene its of nature,
while urban residents come to the study area primarily for cultural activities
close to nature. The similar relationship is observed by Sodhi et al.16. They ind
that people with longer residency valued regulating and provisioning services
provided by neighboring forests more.
Many researchers report that the background characteristics of respondents
play a particularly decisive role in the perception of ecosystem services17. In our
study, between-group comparisons based on variables other than the place of
residency (e.g. age, sex, education, source of income) show surprisingly few signi icant differences in the perception and actual use of bene its of nature. Moreover, our respondents show slightly different preferences. For instance, Sodhi et
al.18 observed that people that were better educated valued more forest reserves
for their regulating services. In our study, level of education differentiated the
perception of some cultural values instead of regulating services.
The phrase bene its of nature proved to be adequate and useful as a keyword
promoting the concept of ecosystem services and in social studies.
This research has been supported by National Science Centre within the framework of the project
2012/07/B/ST10/04344 “Ecosystem services in young glacial landscape – assessment of resources, threats and utilisation”.
G. Brown, J.M. Montag, K. Lyon, Public Participation GIS: A Method for Identifying Ecosystem
Services, “Society and Natural Resources” 2012 no. 25, p. 633-651.
15 T. Plieninger, S. Dijks, E. Oteros-Rozas, C. Bieling, Assessing, mapping, and quantifying cultural ecosystem services at community level, “Land Use Policy” 2013 no. 33, p. 118-129.
16 N.S. Sodhi et al., op. cit., p. 1175-1188.
17 T. Dietz, L. Kalof, P.C. Stern, Gender, values, and environmentalism, “Social Science Quarterly” 2002
no. 83, p. 353-364; N. Suckall, E.D.G. Fraser, T. Cooper, C. Quinn, Visitor perceptions of rural landscapes: a case study of the Peak District National Park, England, “Journal of Environmental Management” 2009 no. 90, p. 1195-1203; T. Plieninger, S. Dijks, E. Oteros-Rozas, C. Bieling, Assessing, mapping, and quantifying cultural ecosystem services at community level, “Land Use Policy” 2013 no. 33,
p. 118-129; D.B. van Berkel, P.H. Verburg, Spatial quanti ication and valuation of cultural ecosystem
services in an agricultural landscape, “Ecological Indicators” 2014 no. 37, p. 163-174.
18 N.S. Sodhi et al., op. cit., p. 1175-1188.
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Agata Cieszewska • Joanna Adamczyk
PROBLEMS OF MAPPING PROVISIONING AND
RECREATION ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
IN METROPOLITAN AREAS
Agata Cieszewska, Ph.D.
Joanna Adamczyk, Ph.D.
– Warsaw University of Life Sciences
– Warsaw University of Life Sciences
Department of Landscape Architecture
Warsaw University of Life Sciences
Nowoursynowska 159, 02-786 Warsaw
PROBLEMY MAPOWANIA USŁUG EKOSYSTEMÓW
ZAOPATRZENIOWYCH I REKREACYJNYCH
W OBSZARACH METROPOLITALNYCH
STRESZCZENIE: Mapowanie potencjału usług ekosystemowych jest ważnym etapem identyfikacji korzyści prowadzonych przez ekosystemy i ich wyceny ekonomicznej. W artykule przedstawiono analizę dwóch kategorii
usług ekosystemowych: zaopatrzeniowych oraz rekreacyjnych, które przeprowadzono dla trzech europejskich
obszarów metropolitalnych, które łączy zastosowanie narzędzi planistycznych służących ochronie terenów
otwartych. Badano obszary zielonych pierścieni rozciągające się w promieniu 20 km od granicy obszarów zwartej
zabudowy. Jako podstawę analizy wykorzystano ogólnodostępne dane CORINE Land Cover. Badano w jaki sposób
dane o pokryciu/użytkowaniu terenu powinny zostać wykorzystane do scharakteryzowania obszarów określonych jako zielone pierścienie. W granicach analizowanych buforów dominują usługi zaopatrzeniowe głównie
produkcji rolnej. Określenie udziału obszarów usług rekreacyjnych jest w mniejszym stopniu zależne od cech
użytkowania terenu i trudniejsze do oszacowania. Na przykładzie wykazano że ich udział może się wahać od
dominującego do nieistotnego w zależności od przyjętych kryteriów. Zaproponowano uzupełnienie kryteriów
definiujących tereny wykazujące potencjał dla tej usługi o informacje jakościowe dotyczące struktury własnościowej, intensywności produkcji rolnej oraz założeń rozwoju infrastruktury turystycznej. Wykazano że zastosowane podejście jest przydatne w porównaniach struktury przestrzennej potencjału dla serwisów ekosystemowych.
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Introduction
The two main approaches to research on Ecosystem Services (ES) mapping
can be found in the literature during last few years mainly in special issue of
Ecological Indicator no. 21 (2012). First1 mapping of ES through analyses of land
cover or/and land use (LULC), where in the result one can get indirect information about Ecosystem Services potential. This makes possible to map bene its
that come through general land management, but doesn’t provide information on
kind of ES and bene its that we can gain from particular ecosystem. The information is related usually to more than one type of Ecosystem Service, sometimes
even to whole group as provisioning, regulating, cultural. As an example Burkhard1 provisioning ES can be mapped through reduced information about land
use as agricultural lands and forests. Second approach2 is based on mapping of
particular ES to capture relation between particular bene its and it’s area of supply (sometimes also demand). This approach helps to de ine the actual area that
brings the bene it to the very well de ined category of ES. The disadvantage of
such approach may be relatively narrow understanding of interrelations of the
particular ES with other factors. As an example one can map lood regulating ES
or iber supply usually these kind of research refer to local scale because of very
specify detail data.
In this paper we follow irst of the mentioned approaches and focus on multifunctional aspect of ES mapping. Although mapping of ES based on LULC data
was applied in some studies mentioned before, it hadn’t been used such approach
applied to the green belts.
We assess the areas that provide ES in metropolitan areas of selected European cities: London, Vienna and Randstad. For all of them tools were proposed to
apply for open space protection in the surroundings of the city/cities to control
urban sprawl. This kind of planning instrument is used to be called green belt.
The concept of green belt for more than 100 years inspired city planners to keep
the outskirt of the cities out of built up areas, that mean areas with strong limitation of new development3 The list of main goals to use this planning instrument
for these cities is presented in Table 1. There are different reasons to protect
open spaces around analyzed cities related to various roles to sustain them.
B. Burkhard, F. Kroll, B. Nedkov, F. Müller, Mapping ecosystem service supply, demand and
budgets, “Ecological Indicators” 2012 no. 21, p. 17-29; L. Koschke, C. Fürst, S. Frank, F. Makeschin, A multi-criteria approach for an integrated land cover based assessment of ecosystem
services provision, “Ecological Indicators” 2012 no. 21, p. 54-66.
2 F. Eigenbrod et al., The impact of proxy-based methods on mapping the distribution of ecosystem services, “Journal of Applied Ecology” 2010 no. 47, p. 377-385; S. Frank, Ch. Fürst, L. Koschke, F. Makeschin, A contribution towards a transfer of the ecosystem service concept to landscape planning using landscape metric, “Ecological Indicators” 2012 no. 21, p. 30-38.
3 P. Hall, Cities of Tommorow, Oxford 1990; M. Amati, M. Yokohari, The establishment of the
London Greenbelt: Reaching consensus over, “Journal of Planning History” 2007 no. 6, p. 311-337;
H.W. Frey, Not green belts but green wedges: the precarious relationship between city and country, “Urban Design International” 2000 no. 5, p. 13-25.
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In Vienna the main goal was to protect nearby forest for recreation needs, then
also to conserve traditional agriculture as vineyards and to keep agriculture on
the best Austrian soils in Danube valley4. Similar motivation was to establish the
green heart of the Netherlands in Randstad consisting of agricultural lands.
The iconic example of greenbelt in London had been set to control urban sprawl
but also to preserve productive agricultural areas and green open spaces suitable
for recreation5. Additionally the table shows difference between functions that
are ful illed by open spaces in the surrounding of the analyzed ten cities. Functions of greenbelt and the like instruments had been analyzed by Yokohari, Yang
and Jinxing, Bengston and Youn, Amati and Yokohari6.
Open spaces within greenbelts mostly consist of natural and seminatural
ecosystems that provide variety bene its to cities inhabitants7,8. Bene its provided by green belts are contemporary understood through the ES concept. Discussion how functions of landscape or environment can be transmitted to ecosystem
services is still quite dynamic starting from Jax, Wallace, Bollinger and Kienast,
till Haines-Young, Potschin and Kienast and also Burkhard et al.19. Additionally
the problem can be understood wider – while functions are mainly understood
by environmentalist as natural processes by planners or urbanists functions are
more recognized as management (uses) of the land (landscape).
Main aim of this paper is to ind out how (or if) the differences in the LULC
between the compared areas in luence green belt functions. For this reason we
selected those which occur in almost all European metropolitan areas: recreation
and protection of agricultural land. We investigate how much of the metropolitan
area provides potential two groups of ES: provisioning and cultural. To reach this
M. Breiling, G. Rulad, The Vienna Green Belt: From Localized Protection to a Regional Concept,
in: M. Amati (ed.), Urban green belts in the Twenty- irst Century, Ashgate 2012.
5 M. Amati (ed.), op. cit.
6 M. Yokohari, K. Takeuchi, T. Watanabe, p. Yokota, Beyond greenbelt and zoning: A New planning concept for environment of Asia mega-cities, “Landscape and Urban Planning” 2000 no. 47,
p. 159-171; J. Yang, Z. Jinxing, The failure and success of greenbelt program in Beijing, “Urban
Forestry&Urban Greening” 2007 no. 6(4), p. 287-296; D. Bengston, T-C. Youn, Urban Containment Policies and the Protection of Natural Areas: The Case of Seoul’s Greenbelt, “Ecology and
Society” 2006 no. 11(1). M. Amati, M. Yokohari, Temporal changes and local variations in the
functions of London’s Greenbelt, “Landscape and Urban Planning” 2006 no. 75(1-2), p. 125-142.
7 R.S. de Groot, M. Wilson, R. Boumans, A typology for the description, classi ication and valuation of Ecosystem Functions, “Goods Services Economics” 2002 no. 41(3), p. 393-408.
8 R.S. de Groot, Function-analysis and valuation as a tool to assess land use con licts in planning
for sustainable, multi-functional landscapes, “Landscape and Urban Planning” 2006 no. 75,
s. 175-186.
9 K. Jax, Function and “functioning” in ecology: what does it mean?, “Oikos” 2005 no. 111, p. 641-648;
K.J. Wallace, Classi ication of ecosystem services: problems and solutions, “Biological Conservation” 2007 no. 139, p. 235-246. J. Bollinger, F. Kienast, Landscape Functions in a Changing Environment, “Landscape Online” 2010 no. 21, p. 1-5. R. Haines-Young, M. Potschin, F. Kienast, Indicators of ecosystem service potential at European scales: Mapping marginal changes and
trade-offs, “Ecological Indicators” 2012 no. 21, p. 39-53. F. Kienast et al., Assessing landscape
functions with broad-scale environmental data: insights gained from a prototype development
for Europe, “Environmental Management” 2009 no. 44, p. 1099-1120.
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Tab l e 1
Goals and instruments used to protect open spaces within analyzed metropolitan areas
Goals to protect open spaces
within metropolitan areas
Tool to protect open space
within metropolitan areas
City
Recreation areas
Tradition of agriculture
Limitation of urban sprawl
System of protected open spaces within
metropolitan area
Vienna
Control urban sprawl
Physiognomic/ landscape protection
Protection of agricultural land
Recreation areas
System of open spaces that surrounds
the city
London
Productivity of agricultural land
Limitation of urban sprawl
Recreation areas
System of open spaces is located inside
the group of cities (polycentric region of
Amsterdam, Rotterdam, the Hague and
Utrecht)
Randstad
Source: own elaboration based on planning documents for London, Vienna and Randstad metropolitan areas.
objective we test how the information on potential for these ES might be represented with simple and widely accessible data from European databases (LULC
and protected areas). If successful, such approach might be useful tool for comparisons made over a large number of compared metropolitan areas across the
Europe, where completing the detailed data for all of these is almost impossible.
Methods
Three European metropolitan areas: Vienna, London and Randstad were
chosen for analysis. They represent different types of greenbelts (Table 1), similar goals to set this planning tool and some dissimilarities between the local conditions re lected in the LULC structure within their green belts. The second criterion was similarity of the goals and applied tools for open spaces protection. The
area of green heart within conurbation of Randstad (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The
Hague) was added to the analysis because of its speci ic unique character non
comparable to the other European green belt areas, especially related to the cultural functions ful illed (for details see discussion section).
The green belt areas were analyzed as buffer zones of the ixed radius of 20
kilometers around main urban areas of the cities. Such approach, in opposite to
the use of legal borders of protected greenbelts of various sizes and character,
facilitates comparison of the analyzed areas. The radius of 20 km was determined
through the landscape structure analysis, which result was that the con iguration
speci ic for the green belt areas can be mostly found within this distance. This
extent is also comparable to the areas considered as green belt around most of
the European cities.
For mapping of the ES the widely accessible European datasets were used:
Corine Land Cover 2000 (CLC) and EU nature protection areas Natura 2000 sites
(EEA). The reference scale of CLC database is 1:100 000, which is widely agreed
as appropriate for comparisons of such large areas. The thirty ive LULC categories
are provided for the analyzed metropolitan areas. These were grouped to characterize the potential for the two main bene its: provisioning and recreation ES.
The Provisioning Ecosystem Services or production functions are understood in this study according to de Groot as biomass production – agriculture,
timber production and also other energy resources. The group of provisioning ES
we refer to the feeding function of green belt – preserving farmland, best soils
and traditional farming types as vineyards, pastures or simply preserving economic value of agriculture, but also to keep forest for timber production, and
some areas suitable for mineral extractions. This approach was also presented by
de Groot, Koschke and Burkhard1215. Similar to Koschke and Burkhard12. As
offering potential for the provisioning ES the following categories were used: all
classes of agricultural areas (CLC 211-244), mineral extraction sites (CLC 131) as
well as nonproductive forest. To delimit the last category protected areas of Natura 2000 sites were excluded from combined three kinds of forest: broad leaved
(CLC 311), coniferous (CLC 311) and mixed (CLC 312).
Among cultural ES we focus on areas suitable for recreation. Bengston and
Youn12 as well as Amati and Yokohari13 bring emphasis to the substantial role of
the metropolitan areas potential for recreation to supply leisure and sport areas
in and out of the city limits. In de inition of land use important for recreation we
follow the approach proposed by Koshke et al.2 and Burkhard et al.1 and use the
following classes: green urban areas (CLC 141), sport and leisure areas (CLC
142), water courses and water bodies (CLC 511, 512), from class of forest and
seminatural areas we consider all forests groups, scrub and/or herbaceous vegetation associations, from class of open spaces we included beaches, dunes, sands
(CLC 311, 312, 313. 321, 322, 323, 324, 331). Additionally, according to the recommendation these authors, selected agricultural lands classes were added with
signi icant share of natural vegetation as: pastures, complex cultivation patterns,
land principally occupied by agriculture with signi icant areas of natural vegetation, agro-forestry areas (CLC 231, 242, 243, 244) and one class of permanent
crops vineyards (CLC no. 221).
The assessment of the metropolitan areas potential to ful ill the ES is performed separately for each group: provisioning and recreation. The percentage of
the area is calculated occupied by the combined LULC classes within the whole
green belt area. Also the con iguration of the areas covered by these classes is
visually analyzed. This allows us to check if there is a relation between these
characteristics and declared green belt like instruments for these areas.
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Results
The comparison of areas with potential for provisioning and recreation functions is provided in Figure 1a as percentage of the green belt areas of the three
analyzed cities. The spatial distribution of these areas is presented on maps
shown on Figure 2.
The areas of the provisioning ES are signi icant for all compared areas, especially for Randstad and Vienna (almost 80%) in London this area is relatively
smaller (59%). From three ES types that contain provisioning group (Figure 1b)
the food production prevails in metropolitan areas. In all buffer zones agricultural land that converts solar energy into edible plants and animals covers the highest area and ful ils the vital role to supply the city. These areas mainly consist of
croplands in London and Vienna, and in Randstad pastures dominate. Substantial
is small proportion of productive forest, particularly in conurbation of Randstad
(the Netherlands) and London. Mineral extraction within analyzed areas has no
signi icant role.
Predominant agricultural function suggests that the ecosystems within green
heart of Randstad and in the surroundings of Vienna and London have a signi icant impact on city vitality. The spatial analyzes of the provisioning ES within all
ten metropolitan areas clearly re lect goals of open space (green belt like instruments) protection proposed by planners. In addition, clearly marked by a lack of
productive forests in vicinity of the Randstad and London.
ES related to recreation usually concern outdoor activities, but also provide
leisure facilities i.e. those elements which enhance the recreation ability of the
area. The largest area with potential of recreation arise in Randstad with almost
Fig ure 1
The percentage of the areas within buffer zones of metropolitan areas of London, Vienna and
Randstad: a) comparison between provisioning and recreation ES, b) structure of provisioning ES
Source: own study.
Fi gu re 2
Areas with potential of providing two groups of ecosystem services (upper line) provisioning and
(lower line) recreation within buffer zones of metropolitan areas of London, Vienna and Randstad
Source: own study.
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Fig ure 3
The percentage of the areas within buffer zones of metropolitan areas of London, Vienna and
Randstad with detailed structure of recreation ES
Source: own study.
80% cover of all the analyzed area. This area is mostly used as agricultural lands,
particularly pastures. In other metropolitan areas less than 40% are covered by
the recreation function. This is a result of different proportion between the pastures (London 14%, Vienna 22%) and arable lands which are not suitable for
recreation. The detailed LULC structure (Figure 3) shows three kinds of areas
playing main role within recreation areas of the green belts: pastures in Randstad
(68%), forest in Vienna (29%), and both classes are signi icant in London (pastures 14%, forest 12%). In Randstad water bodies are also visible (6%). The results suggest that areas supplying the city with food and raw materials, are in
parallel of the greatest potential for outdoor recreation.
It might be considered as a kind of surprising that Vienna area with more
signi icant share of forest areas looks to be less suitable for recreation than Randstad where open spaces are dominant. Therefore further analysis was performed
to investigate how the recreation function should be considered. For this reason
we mapped it using changed criteria, namely without the most doubtful agriculture categories as pastures, complex cultivation patterns, land principally occupied by agriculture and agro-forestry areas. The result is compared to the hitherto considered percentage of land cover including these areas on Figure 4. Two
kinds of metropolitan areas are visible in the results.
First, the differences in the mapped areas with capacity for recreation are
major in the Randstad, London and in Vienna the difference is rather minor, less
than the 10 percent points. The highest differences are noticeable in the Randstad where it reaches nearly 70% of the cover area. That means that the recreation function is determined by ecosystems created mainly by pastures, and also
to a minor extent: complex cultivation patterns, land principally occupied by agriculture and agro forestry areas.
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Fi gu re 4
Two versions of percentage of the area with capacity to recreation ES.
Source: own study.
Fi gu re 5
Comparison of two approaches to Recreation ES mapping
5a – map that contains CLC categories as: green urban areas,
sport and leisure areas, water courses and water, all group of
forests scrub and/or herbaceous vegetation associations,
beaches, dunes, sands and from agricultural categories: pastures, complex cultivation patterns, land principally occupied
by agriculture, agro-forestry areas, vineyards and olive groves
Source: own study.
5b – map that contains CLC categories as: green urban areas,
sport and leisure areas, water courses and water, all group of
forests scrub and/or herbaceous vegetation associations, beaches, dunes, sands and from agricultural categories: vineyards and
olive groves
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The two versions of mapped recreation ES are presented in igure 5: a) shows
the map obtained when meadows and pastures were included to the analysis, b)
green heart zone with categories of recreation when the controversial categories
are excluded. The comparison of these two approaches shows contrast in interpretation of existence of the potential for recreation ES within the Randstad area.
In irst igure this area is mostly suitable for outdoor activities, while according to
the second, this area is not suitable.
In this paper we show that the proposed approach for mapping of the potential for provisioning and recreation ES using combined LULC classes provides
satisfactory overview. This con irms indings of above cited authors. Although
such comparison was not performed for green belt areas.
Further discussion is still needed on criteria used for de inition of the ES
groups. While provisioning ES are relatively accurately de ined (the area of food
and iber production is rather clear), many doubts arise concerning ambiguously
de ined criteria that delineate categories of LULC suitable to recreation. In the
literature main discordances are associated to the categories of agricultural areas. For example some authors consider the role of arable lands class (CLC 211) as
ecosystems appropriate to outdoor recreation20, while others1 note their minor
role. According to research of Koschke other classes: pastures, complex cultivation patterns, land principally occupied by agriculture, with signi icant areas of
natural vegetation, agro-forestry areas, vineyards, and also olive groves seem to
be proved as ecosystems that supply recreation activities.
Based on the provided comparison we suggest that one of solutions might be
individual de inition of recreation ES areas according to the following factors:
intensity of agriculture, ownership structure, tradition of the recreation infrastructure development. First two factors might be considered as comparison of
the Vienna area with Randstad and London. The most of Austrian agricultural
areas are accessible for recreation and the intensity of agriculture is relatively
lower than in the Randstad area as vineyards. In London area the habit of fencing
parcels may limit accessibility of agricultural lands. The tradition of recreation
infrastructure development in most of European countries causes concentration
of the main tourist infrastructure (picnic areas, hiking nodes or starting tours
places) near natural and seminatural areas: forests, watercourses. In the areas of
accessible agricultural lands such elements are also present: biking or hiking
trails and other elements as view towers or vista points. Nevertheless its presence corresponds to the goals of developments of the tourist infrastructure. Metropolitan buffer of Vienna is again different in this ield than other analyzed areas, where long distance trails are kind of tradition. It seems that based on above
provided conditions the three areas analyzed within this study might be accounted to two separate groups with different criteria of de inition of the recreation
ES. Nevertheless such de inition causes many doubts with comparisons of separately de ined areas, what is subject to further research.
Within this paper we show that the proposed approach is useful for comparison between the different areas. The advantage is using data, which are widely
accessible and standardized for the whole European Union. The proposition of
grouping of the green belt areas with similar conditions for particular ES facilitates relation of the applied instruments to other areas where such solutions are
under consideration, like most of Polish metropolitan areas.
The presented approach provides additional information about function of
open spaces within outskirt of big cities and could be helpful for planners to deine greenbelt or greenbelt like instrument to protect ecosystems that brings
various bene its for human beings.
The research on structure and function of greenbelts was inancially supported by National
Science Centre Poland No N 305 175240.
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Iwona Szumacher • Piotr Pabjanek
THE USE OF LAND COVER DATA
IN ECOSYSTEM SERVICES ASSESSMENT
Iwona Szumacher, Ph.D.
Piotr Pabjanek, Ph.D.
Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies
Krakowskie Przedmiescie 30, 00-927 Warsaw
WYKORZYSTANIE BAZ POKRYCIA TERENU
DO OCENY ŚWIADCZEŃ EKOSYSTEMOWYCH
STRESZCZENIE: Przedmiotem badań była ocena sekwestracji węgla, jako popularnego wskaźnika regulacyjnych
świadczeń ekosystemowych, przy użyciu dwóch baz pokrycia terenu – Urban Atlas (UA) i Corine Land Cover (CLC).
Badania objęły zachodnią strefę miejską i podmiejską Warszawy z fragmentem Kampinoskiego Park Narodowego (gminy Stare Babice, Izabelin, Łomianki i dzielnice Warszawy – Bemowo, Bielany). Wyniki świadczą, że dane
CLC i UA nie są wystarczającym materiałem kartograficznym do oceny świadczeń ekosystemowych w skali lokalnej. Opracowywanie planów przestrzennego zagospodarowania na poziomie gmin lub ich fragmentów, powinno opierać się na badaniach terenowych, których celem będzie weryfikacja danych UA i CLC. Należy również
wykorzystywać wskaźniki, które nie bazują bezpośrednio na danych UA i CLC.
SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: świadczenia (usługi) ekosystemowe, pokrycie terenu, Urban Atlas, Corine Land Cover, sekwestracja węgla
Introduction
Scale, time and location of the ecosystems are the main features for mapping
and assessment of ecosystem services. In the TEEB Manual for Cities: Ecosystem
Services in Urban Management1 it is written that “one of the challenges is to ensure that communication takes place between the environmental- and planning
departments and that information about the ecosystems services is considered
as part of the planning process”. In Poland, the planning process covers the four
main stages of planning studies: national (in scale of 1:500 000-1:1000 000),
voivodeship (1:100 000-1:200 000), commune (1:10 000 – 1:25 000), and local
(1:1000 – 1:5000). Just like in Natura 2000, the main factor of spatial planning2
from the perspective of the ecosystems and their services is the spatial planning
at the commune and local level. National and regional levels are necessary for
consistency of ecosystems, their goods and services protection. Each level, but
especially local one, allows assessing the potential in luence of spatial planning
on the value of the ecosystem services and consequentially the quality of the lives
of the residents of speci ic districts and neighbourhoods. The preservation of the
ecosystems and their capacity to provide services seems particularly important
for the urban areas, because the majority of the populations lives within them,
spends time there, and reaps bene its from the ecosystems located nearby.
The inhabitants of big cities are willing to work in their centres, but often want to
live in the suburbs to raise their well-being. This produces the urban sprawl effect3. This zone is home to particularly endangered ecosystems and their services. Their protection depends on the local spatial development plans. Regardless
of its rank, each survey must recognise the natural conditions in form of an ecophysiographic study and projections of impact on the environment, which is regulated by the act concerning spatial planning4. The scale of the study is an important, perhaps key factor in the application of the ecosystem services mapped and
assessed in the future, which is the intention of the European Commission establishing the guidelines for such studies – MAES (Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services)5. The suggested cartographic starting point for such
TEEB, The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (2011), TEEB Manual for Cities: Ecosystem Services in Urban Management, www.teeweb.org [20-09-2014], p. 34.
2 M. Kistowski, M. Pchałek, Natura 2000 in spatial planning – the role of ecological corridors,
Warsaw 2009, p. 9.
3 M. Gutry-Korycka (ed.), Urban sprawl. Warsaw Agglomeration case study, Warsaw 2005.
4 The act dated 27th March 2003 concerning spatial planning. Journal of Laws of 2003 No. 80
item 717.
5 J. Maes et al., Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services. An analytical framework for ecosystem assessments under action 5 of the EU biodiversity strategy to 2020, Luxembourg 2013.
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studies is the Corine Land Cover (CLC)6. For urban ecosystems, it is the Urban
Atlas (UA)7, due to its superior resolution.
The objective of this study is to compare the assessed carbon sequestration
as the most popular indicator regulating ecosystem services8 with the application of CLC and UA within the communes inside the urban sprawl zone. Carbon
sequestration is de ined as change in C storage in aboveground and belowground
biomass that result from tree growth during a single growing season9. Grass and
herbaceous plants take part in C sequestration, but the role is insigni icant10.
Urban and suburban area is not only the source of carbon, but also the area of carbon storage and sequestration. For instance in USA, forests and forest products
currently store the equivalent to 10-20% of U.S. fossil fuel emissions. The urban
forest role is important in this process also. Urban forests are responsible for
20 percent of total reductions C in California (avoided emission area included)11.
Data and Methods
The study area included the communes located between Warsaw and the
Kampinos National Park. Choosen communes are representive for showing typical
urban sprawl area. Each of them represent different pattern of land cover (dominance of built-up area, dominance of agriculture area and forest). Two districts of
the city of Warsaw were selected (Bielany and Bemowo), which had a great share
of agricultural terrains and were not a part of the main city core12 back in the 1970s,
the Łomianki rural-urban commune, and two rural communes, Izabelin and Stare
Babice. The location of communes and their land cover are suitable to assessing
and monitoring of land cover changes, spatial and temporally ecosystems changes.
CLC and UA were applied to establish their land cover classes and to calculate
the basic landscape metrics for each commune and district: Number of patches
(NP) and Patch density – number of patches/ha (PD). The calculations were
made in Fragstat 4.213, while the GIS analyses were performed in Esri ArcGIS
10.1. The main parameters of CLC and UA: Minimum Mapping Unit (MMU) and
www.eea.europa.eu [20-09-2014].
Ibidem.
8 M.W. Strohbach, D. Haase, Above-ground carbon storage by urban trees in Leipzig, Germany:
Analysis of patterns in a European city, “Landscape and Urban Planning” 2012 no. 104, p. 95-104;
Z.G. Davies et al., Mapping an urban ecosystem service: quantifying above-ground carbon storage at a city-wide scale, “Journal of Applied Ecology” 2011 no. 48, p. 1125-1134.
9 M. E. Gregory, X. Qingfu, A. Elena, A new approach to quantify and map carbon stored, sequestered
and emissions avoided by urban forests., “Landscape and Urban Planning” 2013 no. 120, p. 70-84.
10 H.K. Jo, G.E. McPherson, Carbon storage and lux in urban residential greenspace, “Journal of
Environmental Management” 1995 no. 45(2), p. 109-133.
11 D.C. McKinley et al., A synthesis of current knowledge on forests and carbon storage in the
United States, “Ecological Applications” 2011 no. 21(6), p. 1902-1924.
12 M. Gutry-Korycka (ed.), Urban sprawl. Warsaw Agglomeration case study, Warsaw 2005.
13 K. McGarigal, S.A. Cushman, E. Ene, FRAGSTATS v4: Spatial Pattern Analysis Program for Categorical and Continuous Maps, Computer software program produced by the authors at the
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Tabl e 1
Tree cover for CLC and UA classes, x – category does not appear within the surveyed area [%]
Category
Urban Atlas
MMU
0.25 ha
Arti icial
surface
Continuous Urban Fabric
(average degree of soil sealing: > 80%)
Forest
and
semi-natural
area
Agricultural
area
Others
tree cover
[%]
Corine Land Cover
tree cover
[%]
25 ha
5
Discontinuous Dense Urban Fabric
(average degree of soil sealing: 50-80%)
15
Discontinuous Medium Density Urban
Fabric (average degree of soil sealing:
30-50%)
30
Industrial, commercial, public, military
and private units
5
111 Continuous Urban Fabric
X
112 Discontinuous Urban Fabric
15
121 Industrial and commercial
units
5
122 Road and rail networks and
associated land
5
Green urban areas
70
141 Green urban areas
70
Sports and leisure facilities
10
142 Sport and leisure facilities
10
Forests
90
311 broad-leaved forest
90
Agricultural + Semi-natural areas +
Wetlands
5
Isolated Structures
15
Land without current use
10
312 Coniferous forest
90
313 Mixed forest
90
324 Transitional woodland scrub
65
222 Fruit trees and berry plantation
5
231 Pastures
5
242 Complex cultivation patterns
10
243 land principally occupied by
agriculture with signi icant area
of natural vegetation
50
Source: own study.
quantity of classes within the arti icial surface, agriculture areas, and forests areas, are different (Table 1).
In the next step the annual amount of carbon sequestered per acre per year
has been estimated. In this research carbon sequestered has been calculated usUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst 2012, Available at the following web site: www.umass.edu
[20-09-2014].
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ing the formula of Rowntree and Nowak14, where multiply percent tree cover by
0.00335. An assessed percentage of tree cover was established for a given class of
land cover (Table 1). At least carbon sequestration has been converted into tons
C per hectares per year.
Results
The high UA resolution and more allotments for built-up areas provides both
rural and urban communes with more individual units (NP) in a given commune/
district and higher density per ha (PD), (Table 2). The diverse resolution and
method of preparing the material also entailed a diverse interpretation of the
tree-covered terrains, which provided different areas for the given classes. From
the perspective of the ecosystem services, including the regulating ecosystem
services, the presence of forests is a good example. Despite the numerous classes
assigned to forest areas (Table 1), CLC ultimately reduces their areas due to the
classi ication of certain areas as green urban areas. This is particularly visible in
the Bielany district, where the Bielany Forest is classi ied as a green urban area,
which made the forest area 499.8 ha (Table 2). According to statistical data15, the
forest area in Bielany is 804 ha. The estimated value (939 ha) was provided by
the UA study. If the research is used for planning studies for communes and districts, such differences can provide lawed evaluation of the services and bene its
provided to humans from urban ecosystems. For carbon sequestration, the forests have greater potential due to the great tree density (our assessment: average
of 90%). For green urban areas, these can be parks dominated by lawns and individual trees, but also forest parks. For these reasons, the estimated tree cover
percentage value is lower.
The assessed carbon sequestration value for the surveyed areas was similar.
There were considerable differences in the estimated carbon sequestration for the
city of Łomianki. This results from the diverse quali ication of the arti icial surface,
which is 74% on the CLC map and 61.9% on the UA map, where the CLC has more
land cover classes with a speci ic tree cover percentage assigned (Table 1).
Conclusions
The differences in carbon sequestration result from the various legends in
both classi ication systems, from the various level of generalisation. CLC holds
more categories for areas not built up. A law of CLC is the appearance of mixed
categories (242, 243), the share of which is big in Poland due to the fragmented
R.A. Rowntree, D.J. Nowak, Quantifying the role of urban forest in removing atmospheric carbon dioxide, “Journal of Arboriculture” 1991 no. 17(10), p. 269-275.
15 Statistical Review Warsaw, May 2012.
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Tabl e 2
Comparison of units structure and carbon sequestration among 6 study sites
Category
Carbon
tons/ha/year
(CLC)
Carbon
tons/ha/year
(UA)
Forest ha
(CLC)
Forest ha
(UA)
29.452
0.175
0.170
304.1
293.1
1.672
22.225
0.273
0.279
499.8
939.6
454
1.509
6.990
0.620
0.624
5325.5
5333.3
27
422
3.217
50.274
0.183
0.122
89.0
74.5
3039.8
54
580
1.776
19.080
0.194
0.233
649.7
822.3
6334.9
88
1010
1.389
15.944
0.189
0.200
1413.9
1408.8
Area (ha)
NP (CLC)
NP (UA)
PD (CLC)
Bemowo
district
2492.2
55
734
2.207
Bielany district
3230.6
54
718
Izabelin rural
commune
6494.6
98
Łomianki city
839.4
Łomianki rural
commune
Stare Babice
rural commune
PD (UA)
Source: own study.
structure of the rural areas. The tree cover percentage may be very diverse for
these mixed categories. The tree cover percentage may also be very diverse for
the urban green areas (from parks with sparse tree canopies to parks with dense
tree cover and urban forests).
The available CLC and UA databases are only useful for comparison. The assessment of the actual carbon storage and carbon sequestration requires detailed
tree canopy cover maps derived from orthophotos and the parameterisation of
the C volume based on ield surveys.
Despite the high resolution, the weak points of Urban Atlas in local surveys
were revealed in the analysis of the provision ecosystem services. Ecosystem services provided at urban patch level (house, front garden, squares etc.) cannot be
displayed by the Urban Atlas data16. Additionally, UA is developed only for cities
with population over 100 000, which limits its use (27 cities in Poland).
As the most frequently used indicator of regulating ecosystem services in the
Warsaw urban sprawl zone within 6 administration units, the surveys of carbon
sequestration established that CLC and UA are not satisfactory cartographic material for the local scale in the assessment of the ecosystem services. The creation
of spatial development plans at the level of the communes and their fragments
should include ield surveys aimed to verify the data obtained from the CLC and
UA database and apply the indicators, which are not closely associated with the
CLC and UA database. In the case of cities not covered by Urban Atlas, CLC should
include veri ication of the data concerning the forest and semi-natural area.
N. Larondelle, D. Haase, Urban ecosystem services assessment along a rural–urban gradient:
A cross-analysis of European cities,” Ecological Indicators” 2013 no. 29, p. 179-190.
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Małgorzata Burchard-Dziubińska
URBAN FARMING – UNDERESTIMATED SOURCE
OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES.
ALLOTMENT GARDEN CASE STUDY
Prof. Małgorzata Burchard-Dziubińska, Ph.D.
Faculty of Economics and Sociology
P.O.W. 3/5, 90-255 Lodz
ROLNICTWO MIEJSKIE
– NIEDOCENIANE ŹRÓDŁO USŁUG EKOSYSTEMOWYCH.
STUDIUM PRZYPADKU OGRÓDKÓW DZIAŁKOWYCH
STRESZCZENIE: W miastach i metropoliach na całym świecie rosnąca populacja mieszkańców, aby osiągnąć wysoki standard życia, potrzebuje więcej terenów zielonych. Tymczasem stare ogrody działkowe stają się zagrożone
z uwagi na wysokie ceny gruntów w centrach miast. Konieczne staje się wypracowanie i wprowadzenie nowych
argumentów na rzecz ochrony tych obszarów jako właściwych dla rolnictwa miejskiego. W takim przypadku nierynkowe metody wyceny mogą być pomocne w szacowaniu z punktu widzenia wszystkich mieszkańców miasta
wartości usług ekosystemowych związanych z ogrodami działkowymi. Uwzględnienie wartości tych usług, wpływając dodatnio na cenę działek, powinno ułatwić ich zachowanie w dotychczasowym zastosowaniu.
SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: usługi ekosystemowe, rolnictwo miejskie, metody wyceny
Ecosystems and ecosystem services
Before discussion, the problem of ecosystem services provided by allotment
gardens in cities should be de ined the basic concepts: In accordance to the UN
Convention on Biological Diversity, an ecosystem is a dynamic complex of plant,
animal and micro-organism communities and non-living environment interacting as a functional unit. The interpretation of ecosystems in this paper also entails agricultural and semi-natural systems. Functions of ecosystems, de ined as
the capacity of the ecosystem to provide directly or indirectly goods and services,
that satisfy human needs, may result in the supply of ecosystem services. Ecosystems provide a wide variety of economically valuable services, including gas regulation, climate regulation, waste treatment, water regulation, water supply, disturbance buffering, plant and animal habitat, nutrient cycling and other1.
Ecosystem services include both economic goods and services provided by
ecosystem to society2. For instance, the function “capacity to supply fruits and
vegetables” may provide two services: 1) recreation and 2) supply of fruits and
vegetables as food product, involving two different sets of stakeholders. The user
has the choice: valuing services or functions. Both express, in principle, the bene its supplied by the nature to society. The main difference is that valuation of
services is based on valuation of the low of bene its, and valuation of functions is
based on the environment’s capacity to supply bene its.
In literature following types of ecosystem services are distinguished: provisioning services, regulating services, cultural services and supporting services.
Based upon Millennium Ecosystem Assessment short description of these categories is as follows3:
• Provisioning services re lect goods and services produced by or in the natural, semi-natural or agricultural ecosystem (for example fruits, wood, ish).
• Regulating services result from the capacity of ecosystem to regulate climate,
hydrological and biochemical cycles, earth surface processes and variety of
biological processes.
• Cultural services relate to the non-material bene its people obtain from ecosystem via recreation, cognitive development relaxation and spiritual re lection.
• Supporting services represent the ecological processes that underlie the
functioning of ecosystems.
T. Żylicz, Valuating ecosystem services, „Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2012 no. 2, p. 20.
R. Costanza, et al., The value of the world’s ecosystem services and natural capital, “Nature”
1997 no. 387, p. 253-260.
3 MEA, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis, Washington D.C. 2005, p. 10, www.millenniumassessment.org [20-09-2014].
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The issue of growing costs of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation
was described in the study The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity, in which
“value of nature” has been widely discussed4.
In this paper these concepts are going to be used to analyze the services
provided by ecosystems in association with urban farming in allotment gardens. In this case there are some dif iculties in analyzing the supporting services and their value. Hence, only provisioning, regulating and cultural services will be taken into consideration.
Long history of urban farming
Historical examples of urban farming
The best known examples of urban farming are associated with wars.
During the First World War president Woodrow Wilson called upon all American
citizens to utilize any available open space for food growth. By the year 1919 over
5 million gardening-lots were growing food and over 500 million pounds of agricultural production were harvested. By the time of the Second World War the
administration set up a National Victory Garden Program, that concerned the
establishment of functioning agriculture within cities. As many as 5.5 million
Americans took part in the Victory Garden movement and over 9 million pounds
of fruit and vegetables were grown per year, accounting for 44% of U.S.-grown
produce throughout that time. Similar in the United Kingdom (the campaign “Dig
for Victory”) and Canada citizens were successful in growing vegetables in their
Victory Gardens. However the history of such urban farming is much longer and
has its roots in movement against poverty and food insecurity. The Great Somerford Free Gardens in the Wiltshire village of Great Somerford were created in
1809 following a letter from Rev. Stephen Demainbray to King George III in which
he asked the king to spare, in perpetuity, 6 acres from the Inclosure Acts for the
bene it of the poor of the parish5. In rapid developing industry cities in the early
19th century the idea of allotment gardens came to life in many countries (in the
Netherlands irst gardens were founded in 1838, in Prussia so-called Schreber
Movement in Leipzig in 1864, during the Great Depression in 1893, citizens of a
depression-struck Detroit were asked to use any vacant lots to grow vegetables,
in Norway the oldest, Etterstad Kolonihager, dates to 1908). With the large number of people migrated from the rural areas to the cities to ind employment there
had arisen a problem of social neglect in different forms, including malnutrition.
To improve overall situation of poor workers’, families were allowed to grow
their own food. The city administrations, churches or their employers were provided open spaces for gardening purposes. These were initially called the “garThe Economics of ecosystems and biodiversity, European Communities 2008, www.unep.ch
[29-10-2014].
5 R. Savill, England’s oldest allotments celebrate 200 years, www.telegraph.co.uk [12-05-2014].
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dens of the poor”. It existed in two forms: allotment and community garden. Allotments are parcels cultivated individually, contrary to other community garden
types where the entire area is attended collectively by a group of people6.
New wave of urban farming
Nowadays, the idea of supplemental food production beyond rural farming
operations and distant imports is still inspiring new activities both in highly
developed and developing countries. For example, new wave of urban farming
as a response to the problems associated with the crisis started after 2008 in
many big cities in U.S. The New York City Department of Environmental Protection offers a grant program for private property owners in combined sewer areas
of New York City. The minimum requirement is to manage 1” of stormwater runoff from the contributing impervious area. Projects include green roofs, rooftop
farms, and rainwater harvesting on private property in combined sewer areas.
Because of the special municipal grant programs, such as The Green Roof Tax
Abatement Program, and Green Infrastructure Grant Program, New York City
now has the world’s largest rooftop farms7. Some urban gardeners have used
empty lots. The City has a composting program. There are also provided free
seedlings, courses on growing and selling food. NGOs are also involved in this
activity.
Similarly in California in response to the recession of 2008, a coalition of
community based organizations, farmers and academic institutions formed the
Pomona Valley Urban Agriculture Initiative. It is addressed to the poorest inhabitants, mostly Latino and African–American, among those the aggregate poverty
and aggregate unemployment are very high8.
Another interesting example is a town Todmorden in Yorkshire (United Kingdom), which has successfully developed innovative urban agriculture model in
“propaganda gardens”. In the project, which began in 2008, food crops have been
planted at forty locations throughout the town9. Initiative Incredible Edible Todmorden was born after the meeting “against the tide of the Americanization of
the British diet, of the Tesco-ization of food retailing, of the dissociation of food
from its agricultural and geographic provenance, as well as of a centuries-late
response to the off-shoring of British agricultural biodiversity and of food pro-
E. MacNair, The Garden City Handbook: How to Create and Protect Community Gardens in
Greater Victoria, Polis Project on Ecological Governance, Victoria BC 2002.
7 F. Fabricant, From roof to table, “The New York Time” 2010, July 27, www.nytimes.com,
www.treehugger.com [20-09-2014].
8 Demographic information from the U.S., www.Quickfacts.census.gov [25-08-2014].
9 J. Paull, Please Pick Me – How Incredible Edible Todmorden is repurposing the commons for
open source food and agricultural biodiversity, in: J. Franzo, D. Hunter, T. Borelli, F. Mattei (eds.),
Diversifying Foods and Diets: Using Agricultural Biodiversity to Improve Nutrition and Health,
Oxford 2013, p. 336-345.
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duction generally”10. However the most important issues ware social and educational aspects, biodiversity was taken into consideration.
In many cities in less developed countries urban farming movement is actually present with support received from local authorities, NGOs and volunteer
workers. In Bangkok (Thailand) in early 2000, two urban gardens were started
under the direction of the NGO Thailand Environment Institute (TEI). The main
tasks were to11:
• teach members of the communities the bene its of urban green space.
• create the social framework to plan, implement, and maintain the urban
green space.
• create a process of method to balance the needs of the community with the
needs of the larger environmental concerns.
Different forms of urban farming are successfully developed in Cairo (Egypt),
Beijing (China), Mumbai (India). Gardens organized by schools to reach at the
same time two goals: teaching and diversifying the diet of students from dwellers’ families, are popular.
Allotment gardens in Poland
First allotment gardens in the territory of the present Republic of Poland
were created in 1901. Post-second-war history and development of allotments started from 9 March 1949, when the Parliament adopted the Law
“On employee allotments” (Journal of Laws No. 18, item. 117). The new law
came into force on the 19th January 2014. This allowed to save the legacy of allotment gardening in Poland, including almost 5.000 gardens. In the years 19602011 the number of allotments has increased by 62.4%, their area of almost
210% and the number of plots of 242%. In turn, average size gross of a plot
(together with the area of general purpose) decreased of 496 m2 in 1960 to
449 m2 in 2011. In the same period average gross area of garden allotment
was increased from 4.6 ha to 8.8 ha, and the number of plots per each of them
has more than doubled (from 93 to 196).
Ta b l e 1
Allotment gardens (AG) in Poland
Category
1960
1970
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
2011
Number of AG
3042
3069
5404
7488
7938
5285
5169
4960
4941
Area in hectars
14033
18873
27124
40059
43097
43951
43706
43523
43427
283
393
614
899
970
980
965
968
968
Number of plots
(in thousands)
Source: Environmental Protection Yearbook GUS, Warszawa 2012.
Ibidem, p. 337.
E.D.G. Fraser, Urban Ecology in Bangkok Thailand: Community Participation, Urban Agriculture and Forestry, “Environments” 2002 no. 30(1).
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The role of urban farming in contemporary cities and metropolises
In the long history of allotment gardens and urban farming around the world
the most important were provisioning services. The production of fruits and vegetables had developed to provide food for citizens who suffered because of malnutrition caused by heavy life conditions during wars or connected with unemployment and poverty. On the second place were cultural services. Gardening in
allotment garden has positive impact on society in several aspects. These include
recreation and leisure, individual health and well-being, community health and
well being, environmental health, opportunities for outdoor activities12.
Nowadays, the allotment gardens (like other green areas) are considered as
source of several regulating services, which play an increasingly more important role in expanding and crowded cities.
Taking into consideration that already more than half the world’s population lives in cities and the number of urban citizens is still growing, not only
the problem of providing access to fresh food in proper amount is becoming
more and more severe. Another dif icult issue is air pollution, particularly in
rapid developing big cities with strong pressure on transport development.
Permanent smog and noise are a health hazard. Worsening living conditions
for all city – residents stimulates the quest for new patterns of construction
and land management. Empty plots, roofs and walls are potential space for
urban farming, which could play different social, economical and environmental roles. Under such conditions the old allotment gardens gaining importance because of regulating services provided by: carbon sequestration,
regulation of temperature, control of erosion, regulation of species reproduction and biodiversity conservation, pollination, protection against noise and
dust, water retention. They play also an important role in landscape beauti ication and environmental restoration and remediation (by using and reusing
natural resources and urban wastes to yield a diversity of crops and livestock)13.
Positive environmental impact of food production in allotment gardens results from energy ef iciency and reduction of carbon footprint – locally grown
food could save transport-related emissions14 and thereby can reduce each city’s
carbon footprint by reducing the amount of transport that occurs to deliver goods
to the consumer. Also allotment gardens can act as carbon sinks15 offsetting some
of carbon accumulation in urban areas, where pavement and buildings outnum-
L. Butler, D.M. Moronek (eds.), Urban and Agriculture Communities: Opportunities for Common Ground, Iowa 2002.
13 J. Smit, A. Ratta, J. Nasr, Urban Agriculture: Food, Jobs, and Sustainable Cities, UNDP, New York
1996, NY.
14 M. Xuereb, Food Miles: Environmental Implications of Food Imports to Waterloo Region, Public Health Planner Region of Waterloo Public Health, November 2005.
15 D.B. Rowe, Green Roofs as a Means of Pollution Abatement, National Center for Biotechnology
Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, n.d. Web. 25 Mar. 2013.
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ber plants. Plants absorb atmospheric Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and release breathable Oxygen (O2)16.
The reduction in ozone and other particulate matter can bene it human
health17. Reducing these particulates and ozone could reduce mortality rates in
urban areas along with increase the health of those living in cities18.
The implementation of allotment gardens in vacant lots can be a cost-effective method for removing chemicals and other wastes. In the process known as
phytoremediation, plants and the associated microorganisms are selected for
their chemical ability to degrade, absorb, convert to an inert form, and remove
toxins from the soil19. Phytoremeditation is both an environmentally friendly,
cost-effective, and energy-ef icient measure to reduce pollution. Phytoremediation only costs about $5–$40 per ton of soil being decontaminated20. Implementation of this process also reduces the amount of soil that must be disposed of in
a hazardous waste land ill.
Plants and green areas help also to reduce noise pollution. The exposure to
continual noise is a serious public health problem which it can cause hearing
impairment, hypertension and ischemic heart disease, annoyance, and sleep disturbance21.
Valuation of allotment gardens ecosystem services
The mentioned bene its provided by allotment gardens ecosystems have
a wide range of recipients. Stakeholders are not only owner of plots, who produce
their crops, but all people residing in or otherwise depending upon the area affected by the ecosystems services.
In the discussion about the role of allotment gardens in the contemporary
cities and metropolises economical arguments are of high importance – in particular price of land where plots are situated. Competitive against the allotment
gardens’ possibilities to use as sites for residential or other purposes inevitably
M. Xuereb, op. cit.
H. Mayer, Air pollution in cities, “Atmospheric Environment” 1999 no. 33, p. 4029-4037.
18 In the article written by D.B. Rowe, Green roofs as a means of pollution abatement, the author
argues that a rooftop containing 2000 m² of uncut grass has the potential to remove up to
4000 kg of particulate matter. According to the article, only one square meter of green roof is
needed to offset the annual particulate matter emissions of a car; “Environmental Pollution”
2011 no. 159, v. 8-9, p. 2100-2110; Selected papers from the conference Urban Environmental
Pollution: Overcoming Obstacles to Sustainability and Quality of Life (UEP2010), 20-23 June
2010, Boston, USA.
19 H. Black, Absorbing Possibilities: Phytoremediation, “Environ Health Perspectives” 1995 no.
103(12), p. 1106-108.
20 M.M. Lasat, Phytoextraction of metals from contaminated soil: a review of plant /soil/metal
interaction and assessment of pertinent agronomic issues, “Journal of Hazardous Substance Research” 2000 no. 2, p. 1-25; C. Cluis,, Junk-greedy Greens: phytoremediation as a new option for
soil decontamination, “Biotechnology Journal” 2004 no. 2, p. 61-67.
21 W. Passchier-Vermeer, W.F. Passchier, Noise exposure and public health, “Environmental
Health Perspectives” 2000 no. 108(1), p. 123-131.
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Tabl e 2
Valuation methods and value types – possibilities of apply in valuation of allotment gardens ecosystem services
Valuation method
Suitable for
valuation of
Suggestions of analyze
direct use values indirect use values
Market valuation
goods and services traded
on the market
x
Contingent
valuation methods
goods and services that are
easily to comprehend for
respondents
x
Hedonic pricing
environmental amenities
re lected in the prices of speci ic
goods, in particular property
x
Damage function
approach
losses of ecosystem services
which cause economic damage
(e.g. through an increased noise
and dust pollution)
Travel cost method
recreation services
Ecological valuation
biodiversity conservation service
option values
non-use values
x
x
x
x
x
x
Source: own description based on L. Hein, Economics and Ecosystem, Efficiency, Sustainability and Equity in Ecosystem Management,
Cheltenham UK, Northampton, MA USA, 2010, p. 41.
leads to liquidation of the gardens. In typical calculation, the market value of
fruits and vegetables produced in allotment gardens is not able to offset the revenues from alternative uses of these sites. Moreover, the provisioning function is
often replaced by cultural functions, primarily related to recreation, which is
harder measurable in money. Local governments, seeking for higher budget incomes, are ready to change local plans. Such problems were observed in the last
two decades in several cities in Poland. Many allotment gardens, still situated in
cities centers, are “tasty morsel” for developers. Based on the theory of ecosystem services and their valuation arguments can be formulated for the protection
of allotments in cities. Methodological suggestions are presented in Table 2.
All provisioning services (e.g. fruits, vegetables) and some cultural services
(e.g. recreation) have direct-use value. Indirect use value stems from the indirect
utilization of ecosystems, mainly by the positive externalities that ecosystems
provide to society (e.g. air puri ication, noise suppression, beauti ication of
space). Option value relates to future demand for services when people are willing to pay to keep the option of using a resource in the future for well known and
new (unknown) purposes (e.g. new herbal medicine). Non-use value is imminent
attribute to ecosystem. From anthropocentric point of view it could be beauty of
gardens but ecocentric point of view is worth noting as well. Example is “right to
exist” of plants and animals species in urban space22.
L. Hein, Economics and ecosystem, ef iciency, sustainability and equity in ecosystem management, M.A. 2010, p. 36.
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Conclusions
New arguments based on valuation methods particularly of ecosystem regulating services could add to the discussion on urban farming in allotment gardens
noteworthy input.
Space is at a premium in cities and is accordingly expensive and dif icult to
secure. Maintaining lands of allotment gardens in their current use could be
easier through the estimation of value of regulatory and cultural services,
which are rather not re lected in the price of these plots. It means, that new
research should be conducted to ind more precise information what is real
the value of non-market services of urban semi-natural ecosystem in allotment
gardens for all citizens and not only for plots owners.
This will enable to look from a different perspective at the issue of existence in the urban centers of old allotment lots. Its value is now underestimated, which makes it dif icult to protect this area “as gardens for all”.
Arnold Bernaciak • Monika Wojcieszak
THE VALUATION OF TREES IN THE URBANIZED
AREAS WITH THE COMPENSATION/
REPLACEMENT METHOD AND BENEFITS
ANALYSIS (THE CASE OF THE CITY OF GNIEZNO)
Prof. PSB Arnold Bernaciak, Ph.D.
Monika Wojcieszak, M.Sc.
Poznań School of Banking
Al. Niepodleglosci 2, 61-874 Poznan
WYCENA WARTOŚCI DRZEW NA TERENACH ZURBANIZOWANYCH
METODAMI KOSZTU ODTWORZENIA I ANALIZY KORZYŚCI
(PRZYKŁAD MIASTA GNIEZNA)
STRESZCZENIE: Do określenia wartości drzew na terenach zurbanizowanych są stosowane różnorodne metody.
W związku z odmienną metodyką, uzyskiwane wyniki są często trudne do porównania. Powoduje to liczne trudności, zarówno w wymiarze teoretycznym, jak i praktycznym. W artykule podejmowana jest próba porównania
wyników wyceny wartości drzew uzyskanych dzięki zastosowaniu dwóch metod wyceny – metody kosztu odtworzenia i analizy korzyści. Badaniami objęte zostały drzewa przyuliczne miasta Gniezna.
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Introduction
The knowledge of the economic value of trees has a signi icant meaning for
managing the stand of trees in the urbanized areas. Information in this area may
be unusually useful in investment planning, assessing the impact of the investment on the surrounding natural environment, establishment and development
of green areas and their appropriate cultivation. Lack of appropriate information
may lead to unplanned and often unrealized losses, transferred into particular
quanti ications. The cause may be lost bene its because of limited pro its coming
from the trees, particularly oxygen production, carbon dioxide absorption and
water retention.
The estimations of the economic value of the stand of trees were made in the
United States and chosen European countries1. The estimations were conducted
with different methods. In Poland, despite running research on the tree values,
the research was rather qualitative than quantitative. So far, no comprehensive
economic estimation of the state of trees was conducted for particular spatial
unit. It stems from a few reasons: lack of obligation of conducting natural environment valuation in Polish conservancy laws, lack of appropriate, consistent
and comprehensive valuation method which would be adopted by the conservancy administration and lack of knowledge and appropriate distribution of already
developed methods.
The aim of this article is to present the results of the valuation of street trees
in the town of Gniezno. Thanks to the assumed methodology of the research, the
obtained results help to compare the value which was determined with the compensation/replacement method and the value determined based on the provided
ecosystem services.
Trees as the subject of economic valuation
Trees have speci ic properties which signi icantly in luence their value. These
properties include: the species, age, morphological features, change in
time(height, volume increase, shape change),changes concerning the increased
vitality in the development process, plants lexibility while adapting to new environmental conditions, location. These features have signi icant meaning in determining the criteria of tree value estimation2.
See e.g.: D.J. Nowak, D.E. Crane, J.F. Dwyer, Compensatory value of urban trees in the United
States, “Journal of Arboriculture” no. 28(4), p. 194-199; G.H. Donovan, D.T. Butry, Trees in the
city. Valuing street trees in Portland, Oregon, “Landscape and Urban Planning” 2010 no. 94,
p. 77-83; M. Giergiczny, J. Kronenberg, Jak wycenićwartość przyrody w mieście? Wycena drzew
przyulicznych w centrum Łodzi, in: T. Bergier, J. Kronenberg (eds.), Zrównoważony rozwój –
zastosowania, Kraków 2012, p. 73-89.
2 H.B. Szczepanowska, A. Latos, Synteza badań i założenia merytoryczne metody wyceny wartości drzewa dla warunków polskich, Warszawa 2009.
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The compensation/replacement method (CM/RM) is most often used in the
cities to estimate the value of trees. This method has been legally recognized in
many countries. The cost-bene it analysis (CBA) is frequently used. Hedonic price
method (HPM), conditional value method (CVM) and conditional choice method
(CEM) are used more rarely.
The compensation/replacement method includes the cost of planting and
cultivating the trees, which are the compensation of removed or damaged trees.
The variants of this method are used in different way in different countries. In the
United States this method was used for the valuation of trees in the New York City
and it amounted to USD 5.2 billion (996 dollars per tree), in Jersey City – USD 101
million (USD 742 per tree), in Boston USD 1.3 billion (USD 1058 per tree),and in
Oakland USD 757 million (477 dollars per tree). In total, the value for the whole
country was estimated at USD 2.4 trillion3.
The cost-bene it analysis is also used to estimate the economic value of trees.
It involves balancing the costs related with maintaining city greenery with expected bene its provided by trees in cities. This method was used in the New York
City. The research included 592 000 trees. The analysis showed that trees in the
streets of New York bring to its inhabitants the net pro it of USD 122 million
annually (209 dollars per tree). The following bene its were included in the research: the limitation of energy consumption, CO₂ absorption, pollution absorption, water retention and the impact of trees on the properties. It was estimated
that 1 dollar spent on planting and cultivation of trees brings to the city the profits amounting to USD 5.604.
Another method which is often applied is the hedonic price method. It is underlined in many conducted research that the natural environment, e.g. trees
along the street, impacts the price of a particular property a buyer is willing to
pay (particularly in urbanized areas). In Portland, the biggest city of the State of
Oregon236,000 trees were inventoried5. The research included 2608properties.
It was stated that the presence of the trees growing within the distance not exceeding 30.5m from a housecontributed to the increase of the property value of
approximatelyUSD 8870(3% of the property value). After rounding this result
off, the authors indicated that the trees along the city streets have the value of
USD 1.35 billion. It was also stated that the house surrounded by trees growing
along the streets were easier to sell. The buyers made the decisions to buy these
houseon average 1.7 days earlier. However, it seems that this method is less signi icant in Poland due to a number of different economic and social conditions6.
Contingent valuation method involves conducting survey interview. While
presenting a hypothetical scenario, the buyers give an answer and quote the
price they would be willing to pay for the delivery of particular goods. The plan of
D.J. Nowak, D.E. Crane, J.F. Dwyer, op. cit.
P.J. Peper et al., New York City, New York — Municipal forest resource analysis, Davis 2007.
5 G.H. Donovan, D.T. Butry, op. cit.
6 A. Bernaciak, N. Strzelecka, Natural values as a factor in the location of residential invetsments,
“Economic and Environmental Studies” 2014 no. 14, v. 2, p. 149-162.
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the research, conducted in the United States, in 44 cities of the Missouri state,
assumed the creation of a fund which would allow for betterkeeping of trees in
the cities. The inhabitants expressed their support for establishing the tree fund
by paying taxes. In bigger cities, more than half of the inhabitants were willing to
paybetweenUSD 14-16 per householdannually7.
The value of trees in a city may also be estimated with the choice experiment
method. Similarly to contingent valuation method, it requires the preparation of
hypothetical scenarios of providing services, but the difference is that the respondents have torank these scenarios from the most to the least convenient for
them. This method was used in Poland to value the price of street trees in Łódź8.
The research conducted so far in the economic value of trees allow to draw
some conclusions. First of all, there is no one consistent, universal method, which
could be applied for economic valuation of trees globally, and consequently could
be the legal and formal base for the activities of administration institutions. Secondly, the use of different methods in trees valuation leads to obtaining different
results, which may cause signi icant practical complications. The values obtained
in different research conducted with different methods are not comparable to each
other. Thirdly, the ecosystem bene its provided by the trees, which are in fact demanded by the society, are not always included in the applied valuation methods.
The compensation/replacement method and benefits analysis
– methodological basis of the comparative studies
The valuation of trees with the replacement value, particularly for Polish spatial and environmental conditions was thoroughly developed by Institute of Spatial Management and Housing9. The method concerns the cost of the tree replacement by expressing the inancial compensation for the potential loss of the tree.
The tree circumference of 25 cm was assumed as the limit size of trees which
should be reinstated in the form of natural restitution. The cost of a growing tree
in this particular circumference was assumed as so called basic value. This value
is veri ied with the application of so calledmaterializing factors.These factors
concern the tree condition, its location, species and growth. Depending on the
circumference, the calculating formula of the real tree value(RWD) is presented
in the following way10:
• for the trees of the circumference 20/25 cm: RWD = WP x K x L
(1)
• for the trees of the circumference below 20 cm: RWD = WP x M x K x L; (2)
• for the trees of the circumference above 25 cm: RWD = WP x G x P x K x L;(3)
7 T. Treiman, J. Gartner, Are residents willing to pay for their community forests? Results of a
contingent valuation survey in Missouri, USA, “Urban Studies” 2006 no. 43 v. 9, p. 1537-1547.
8 M. Giergiczny, J. Kronenberg, op. cit.
9 H.B. Szczepanowska (ed.), op. cit.; H.B. Szczepanowska, A. Latos, op. cit.
10 H.B. Szczepanowska (ed.), op. cit.
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where:
WP
K
L
M
G
P
– basic value in PLN for particular tree species;
– condition coef icient;
– location coef icient;
– coef icient of decreasing the value depending on the tree circumference size;
– species value coef icient;
– tree growth coef icient.
The value of services provided to social and economic system by trees (bene its analysis) has been the reference point in this research. Although trees are
the source of many bene its included in Common International Classi ication of
Ecosystem Services (CICES)11, it is suggested only these bene its be included in
the valuation whose value can be calculated most precisely. These bene its include:the absorption of carbon dioxide, oxygen productionand water retention.
The calculation of the value of these bene its may be made with relatively high
precision. It is very dif icult to value other bene its. Even if it is possible, the result
of such valuation has a signi icant mistake. It is suggested naming the sum of the
values calculated for three types of bene its asthe minimum service value [MWU].
The real value of provided bene its [RWS]is de initely higher than the minimum
service value (therefore the denomination ”minimum”), however this value is
dif icult to calculate,therefore it is not included in quantitative categories.
RWD> MWU (pd, pt, rw)
(4)
where:
CWD
RWD
MWU
pd
pt
rw
– the total value of a tree
– the real value of a tree
– the minimum service value
– carbon dioxide absorption
– oxygen production
– water retention
The determination of such value may have signi icant practical meaning.
It allows to relatively easily calculate the value of particular object and confront
it with possible consequences of the activities taken on such object(e.g. removal,
the decrease of provided bene its). Therefore it may be a useful instrument
in local urban planning or the assessment of the environment impact.
The calculation of the provided bene its remains an important issue: the absorption of carbon dioxide (pd), oxygen production (pt)and water retention (rw).
The data concerning the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by trees was
compiledbased on the data available in literature12. The data indicates that the
European Environment Agency (EEA), Common international classi ication of ecosytsem services (CICES), 2013, Consultation on version 4, www.cices.eu [18-06-2014].
12 D.J. Nowak, Atmospheric carbon dioxide reduction by Chicago’s Urban Forest, in: E.G. McPherson, D.J. Nowak, R.A. Rowntree, Chicago’s Urban Forest ecosystem: results of the Chicago, Urban
Forest Climate Project, Forest Service 1994; American Forests 2014, Tree facts, www.americanforests.org [18-06-2014]; NCSU, Tree facts, www.ncsu.edu [18-06-2014]; AEA (Arbor Environmental Alliance), Carbon&Tree Facts, www.arborenvironmentalalliance.com [18-06-2014];
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Tab l e 1
The amount of services provided by trees
Tree circumference [cm]
Absorption of carbon dioxide [kg/year]
Oxygen production [kg/year]
Water retention [l/year]
8-25
10.90
2.90
1000.00
26-40
21.60
15.80
1750.00
41-71
48.00
22.60
2125.00
72-99
94.80
45.60
2500.00
100-143
141.50
68.40
3500.00
144-170
235.10
91.10
4500.00
171-239
399.00
110.30
5282.00
Above 240
486.60
118.00
6064.00
Source: own elaboration based on the literature data indicated in the text.
average amount of CO₂ absorbed by a tree amounts to 164.90 kg/year (from
10.90 kg/yearfor the smallest trees to 486.60 kg/year for the biggest ones). Eight
classes of the trees’ circumferences were established based on the literature.
The appropriate amounts of absorbed carbon dioxide were established correspondingly (Table 1).
The price of EUA certi icate for the Polish market was assumed in order to
determine the value of absorbed carbon dioxide unit. The average monthly prices
of carbon dioxide in 2013 varied between 3.57 to 5.22 PLN/CO₂ ton (the average
– 4,47 euro/ton). The average annual exchange rate was assumed for currency
calculations. After performing the appropriate currency and unit calculations,
the price of 1 kilogram of CO₂ in time of performing the analysis amounted to
0,02 PLN/kg.
Similarly, the value of oxygen production was determined based on the literature data13. The data analysis indicated that the amount of oxygen delivered by
Urban Forestry Network, www.urbanforestrynetwork.org [18-06-2014]; A.L. Soares et al.,
Benefits and costs of street trees in Lisbon, Portugal, “Urban Forestry & Urban Greening” 2011
no. 10; “Ekspertyza natemat ekonomicznych I ekologicznych zysków wypływających z Programu Lesistości Miasta pod kontem absorpcji CO₂ – Gmina Wrocław”; E.G. McPherson, J.R. Simpson, Carbon dioxide reduction through urban forestry. Guidelines for professional and volunteer
tree planters, Forest Service 1999; D.J. Nowak, D.E. Crane, Carbon storage and sequestration by
urban trees in the USA, “Environmental Pollution” 2002 no. 116, p. 381-389; The morton arboretum, www.mgrieblerdev.devcloud.acquia-sites.com [12-06-2014].
13 D.J. Nowak, R. Hoehn, D.E. Crane, Oxygen production by urban trees in the United States,
“Arboriculture&Urban Forestry” 2007 no. 33(3), p. 220-226; J. Borowski, 2013, Dlaczego warto sadzić I pielęgnować drzewa?, www.sadybamazury.wordpress.com [15-06-2014]; T. Tylkowski, Drzewa dla terenów zieleni, „Przegląd Komunalny” 2006 no. 8, www.e-czytelnia.abrys.pl
[15-06-2014]; American Forests, Tree facts, www.americanforests.org [15-06-2014]; M. McAliney,
Arguments for land conservation: Documentation and information sources for land resources
protection, Sacramento CA 1993; E.G. McPherson, Bene its of trees, watershed, energy and air,
“Arborist News” 2004 no. 13(6), p. 29-35.
one tree varies between 0.70 and 3500 kg annually and increases proportionally
to the tree circumference. Eight ranges of tree circumferences were established
along with their corresponding amount of produced oxygen (Table 1).
The value of a produced oxygen unit was established based on the market
offer of medical oxygen. During the study, the lowest price of 1 kg of oxygen
amounted to 14.00 PLN/kg.
Similar proceedings were assumed for another bene it, the retention of water.The scope of retention was established based on literature data14.
Assuming that the scope of retention is proportional to the size of a tree and
following the available data, the scope of retention was established for eight circumference ranges (Table 1).
The establishment of a coef icient to determine the value of retention in inancial categories may be somehow dif icult. The following argumentation was
assumed. Trees absorb water from the ground and transport it to the leaves
through the vascular cambium. Water vapors out of the plant through leaves. This
process reminds the functioning of a water pump. The cost of a pump work may
be determined based on the electricity used for this purpose. Therefore the value
of the service of pumping a particular unit of water can be established based on
the costs such as the electricity used for this purpose (other costs, including the
costs of purchasing the pump are excluded). To perform the appropriate calculations, the pump with the lowest cost of pumping a unit of water was chosen from
the pumps available in the market. Simultaneously, the maximum power consumption of the pump and the lowest price of electricity during the conducted
analysis were taken into consideration. Based on these assumptions, the value of
pumping 1 m³ of water was established and it amounted to 0.02 PLN/m³.
The value of street trees in the town of Gniezno
The research of the economic value of trees was conducted in the town of
Gniezno in September 2013. The area of the research was marked with vector
numerical map, which divides the city into 68 equal parts. These were placed in
the topographic map of Gniezno in 1:50 000 scale. The parts were called sections
( igure 1).
The particular sections were marked longitudinally – with the subsequent
letters of the alphabet and latitudinally – with the numbers from 1 to 10. The
surface of each section is 79.9 ha. Six sections in the longitudinal sequence from
D5 to D10 were chosen for the research. The chosen sections start from the suburb area (D10) and end in the city centre (D5). Each section is characterized by
different spatial structure. The total area that was researched covered 479.4 ha.
E.G. McPherson, op. cit., p. 29-35; A.L. Soares et al., op. cit.; www.urbanforestrynetwork.org
[12-06-2014]; The Morton Arboretum, www.mortonarb.org [12-06-2014].
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Fig ure 1
Division of the town of Gniezno into sections
5154 trees were inventoried in the researched area including 1619 street
trees (31%). Most of the trees were located in D6 section (41% of the total number of trees), where there was the domination of trees accompanying the architectural buildings. The trees were located next to public buildings, schools,
churches and in the playground parks. The lowest number of trees was found in
D10 section, characterized by the dominating agricultural function (Table 2).
The economic value of trees in the research area, calculated with the compensation/replacement method was estimated at over PLN 50 million. The average value of one tree is over PLN 13.5 thousand. Meanwhile, the value calculated
based on the provided ecosystem services is slightly above PLN 2.5 million annually, and the average value of one tree in this case amounts to PLN 560. It must be
emphasized that the compensation/replacement method refers to the whole lifecycle of a particular tree. Therefore, the time frames, when the value of the provided services is summed up, should be determined in order to compare the results obtained from these two methods. These time frames can be associated
with the average lifespan of a tree in the urban development. The lifespan of 30
years was assumed for the needs of this research. In this period of time the value
of trees calculated with the cost analysis method amounted to more than PLN
240
Including street
trees
17,85
average
Average tree
condition*
Tree condition
assessment
Norway maple
(Acerplatanoides)
The most popular
street tree species
Small-leaved lime
(Tiliacordata)
Small-leaved lime
(Tiliacordata)
Small-leaved
lime
(Tiliacordata)
1,09
1,3
average
17,37
74,96
130
762
513
892
D7
Thuja
occidentalis
1,06
1,1
average
16,69
73,14
483
1624
645
2107
D6
European ash
(Fraxinusexcelsior)
European ash
(Fraxinusexcelsior)
1,18
1,3
average
16,77
77,85
54
185
150
239
D8
European ash
(Fraxinusexcelsior)
European ash
(Fraxinusexcelsior)
1,05
1,3
average
17,11
90,42
–
55
55
55
D9
European ash
(Fraxinusexcelsior)
European ash
(Fraxinusexcelsior)
1,2
1,3
good
18,65
104,69
–
16
16
16
D10
Small-leaved lime
(Tiliacordata)
Thuja occidentalis
1,08
1,3
average
17,41
80,55
1258
3896
1619
5154
Total
* The condition of trees, urban coef icient and location coef icient were determined pursuant to the tree valuation methodology suggested by Szczepanowska [2009]
Thuja
occidentalis
0,96
The most popular
tree species
Average value
of location
coef icient
1,1
62,25
Average
circumference
[cm]
Urban coef icient
591
Number
of coniferous
trees
1254
1845
Number of trees
in section
Number
of deciduous trees
D5
Specification
Tab l e 2
The results of tree inventory in the town of Gniezno, sections D5-D10
195
23 093 490,00
Total value of services of oxygen production
2 407,38
83 374,32
Total value of services of carbon dioxide absorption
Total value of services of water retention
12 563,29
23 179 278,24
418,78
772 642,61
12 595,44
17 286 575,00
D5
Average value of services in lifecycle (30 years)
Total value of services in lifecycle (30 years)
Average value of services annually
Total value of services annually
Average compensation/replacement value
Total compensation/replacement value
Value category [PLN]
Table 3
The value of trees in the town of Gniezno in researched sections [PLN]
3 022,91
32 301 444,00
121 270,56
15 389,53
32 425 737,47
512,98
1 080 857,92
9 726,12
20 446 551,12
D6
1 333,28
14 533 974,00
49 075,80
16 350,21
14 584 383,08
545,01
486 146,10
11 612,98
8 338 116,97
D7
365,99
4 013 940,00
13 589,58
16 853,12
4 027 895,57
561,77
134 263,19
15 847,66
3 787 590,14
D8
Section
90,40
958 062,00
4 174,32
17 496,85
962 326,72
583,23
32 077,56
14 126,96
607 459,35
D9
29,21
355 530,00
1 229,04
22 299,27
356 788,25
743,31
11 892,94
17 357,53
277 720,55
D10
7 249,17
75 256 440,00
272 713,62
16 825,38
75 536 409,33
560,85
2 517 880,31
13 544,45
50 744 013,13
Ogółem
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75.5 milion, and the average value – almost PLN 17 thousand (Table 3). The obtained results are therefore very similar to the results obtained with the compensation/replacement method. However, the previous assumption must be resembled that the value received from summing up the bene its obtained from only
three services is treated as the minimum value. The real value, which is not calculated but theoretically assumed, takes into consideration the sum of all provided
services. Therefore it is higher than the calculated minimum value.
Conclusions
It is necessary to adopt a homogeneous, universal and precise valuation
method so that the tree valuation not only had the theoretical meaning but could
serve for the optimization of management processes in environmental protection administration (spatial planning, environmental impact assessment).The
more estimated character of the conducted valuation, the lower usefulness of
such valuation. Simultaneously, the research progress in the area of ecosystem
services and the importance attached to this issue by the European Union ecological policy demand the inclusion of this element in the valuation method.
The inclusion of ecosystem services provided by the trees, at least to the
measurable scope expressed in money values, is a signi icant methodological
challenge. It is particularly challenging due to the fact that the economic value of
trees has many aspects, it depends on the adopted assumptions and the applied
methodology.
The conducted research indicated that two different methods of calculating
the trees value lead to obtaining very similar results. The differences between
these methods stem from methodological shortages and therefore the necessity
of accepting some simpli ied assumptions. The similar results, however, indicate
the possibility of the interchangeable use of these compared methods and the
probable use of the results obtained with one method to the analysis conducted
with the use of the second method.
There are two problems appearing in relation with the conclusions described
herein. These problems would require further research in order to be solved.
Firstly, what period of time should be assumed as the average lifespan of particular tree species in urban development while determining the services provided
by these trees. This factor signi icantly impacts the inal result of the valuation
with the bene it analysis method. Secondly – how to differentiate the value of
provided services during the particular stages of tree development. Due to the
lack of data in this area, a far reaching simpli ication was assumed for the needs
of this research and no differentiations in the services value were made concerning the age of a tree. Answer to these two questions would allow to make one step
towards discovering the real, exact value of trees growing in the urbanized areas.
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Jacek Zatoński
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES OF ABANDONED
LAND IN A CITY. AN EXAMPLE FROM POZNAŃ
Jacek Zatoński, Ph.D.
– Centre for Promotion of Eco-development
Centre for Promotion of Eco-development
Os. Orla Bialego 118/19, 61-251 Poznan
USŁUGI EKOSYSTEMÓW TERENÓW ODŁOGOWANYCH
W MIASTACH. PRZYKŁAD POZNANIA
STRESZCZENIE: Tereny odłogowane pojawiają się w wielu miastach na świecie. Ich liczba oraz charakterystyka
zależna jest od warunków środowiskowych oraz społeczno-gospodarczych. W Poznaniu obszary nieużytkowane
przez człowieka obejmują 10% powierzchni miasta, większość z nich stanowią tereny pokryte roślinnością, a co
za tym idzie dostarczające usługi ekosystemowych. Ich powierzchnia jest porównywalna do obszaru zieleni urządzonej w Poznaniu i stanowi istotnym elementem ekosystemu miasta. Odłogi szczególnie efektywne dostarczają usług regulacyjnych. W niniejszej pracy zbadano skalę tych usług w zakresie zasilania wód podziemnych i retencji, oczyszczania powietrza oraz magazynowania węgla. Obszary te często zagrożone są przez nową
zabudowę. Wykazywanie skali dostarczanych przez nie świadczeń może być wykorzystywane jako narzędzie
pomocne w ochronie najcenniejszych z tych terenów.
SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: odłogi, roślinność spontaniczna, świadczenia ekosystemów
Introduction
Abandoned land constantly appears and disappears in cities. It is usually
a part of almost every process of land use change, at least temporary. When land
is unused by people the nature starts to use it for processes of vegetation growth.
When land is unused for long periods of time natural succession usually tends to
create ecologically valuable ecosystems. Such ecosystems could be an important
part of green infrastructure in cities and provide variety of services for inhabitants of these cities.
It is important for researchers and policy makers to take into account areas
of abandoned land and its ecological functions. They should know the extent of
abandoned land in cities and its functions so protection of most valuable areas
could be introduced. Decision makers in Poznań do not have data and knowledge
about abandoned land in the city so this research was carried out to ful il this gap.
The aims of this study were to identify the area of abandoned land in the city and
examine types and a scale of their ecosystem services.
Abandoned land
Abandoned land could be de ined as land which is not in use in a direct and
formal way by people1. This broad de inition includes areas such as wasteland,
ruderal urban forests, previous gardens and parks or brown ields. Depending on
a state and an appearance the abandoned land in this study was grouped in two
types: semi-natural with vegetation cover and built-up. These classes depend on
a type of previous use, recultivation treatments and a period of not being used.
For example, previously built-up area after recultivation planned by humans or
self-made by nature could end up as a semi-natural area. Use of such a classi ication
results from the aim of the study in which semi-natural areas play a crucial role.
This de inition of abandoned land includes also very small and only temporal
areas, so two additional criteria were used. The irst was a minimal area of two
hectares so only sites big enough to be signi icant in context of the whole city was
taken in consideration. The second condition was ive years as a minimal period
of not being in use which allows to study only long-term unused land.
J. Zatonski, Miejsce i rola odłogów miejskich w strukturze przestrzennej Poznania, rozprawa
doktorska, Poznań 2013.
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Abandoned land in cities
Abandoned land are present in almost every city in the world2. But there are
differences in their characteristics depending on an environment type and socio-economic drivers3. Two main reasons causing the appearing of abandoned land seems to be deindustrialization and changes in agricultural land
use around cities. Changes in industry, technology and localization make old
industrial buildings and sites unsuitable and they became abandoned brownields. More and more people living around cities stop cultivating their agricultural land and urban sprawl leads to converting this land into residential
areas so this land is not in use between time of cultivation stop and new development. During periods of cities growth most of abandoned land appears
on city edges with progressing urbanization, during deurbanization more of
abandoned land emerges closer to the city center (Figure 1).
Fig ure 1
Location and area of abandoned land in different stage of city life cycle 1
J. Liu et al., Study on spatial pattern of land-use change in China during 1995-2000, “Science in
China Series D: Earth Sciences” 2003 no. 46, t. 4, p. 373-384; Department for Communities and
Local Government, Previously-Developed land that may be available for Development: England, London 2005, 2006, 2007; D. Bartlett, P. Quine, Approaches to urban renewal in the US
and UK, Berkshire1987; A.O’M . Bowman, M.A. Pagano, Urban vacant land in the United States,
Boston 1998.
3 A. Pagano, A. O’M Bowman, Vacant land in cities. An urban resource, The Brookings Institution, Survey Series, Washington 2000, p. 8.
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In spite the fact that abandoned land has a signi icant share in an area of
some cities, they are often ignored in ecological studies4. There is also lack of
understanding of „urban wilderness” which occurs on such areas as additional
and valuable aspect of urban green5.
Abandoned land in Poznań
During research aerial and satellite imagery analyses and ground truthing
were used to identify abandoned land and their basic characteristics in city of
Poznań. In result 208 abandoned sites was identi ied. They cover area of 25.3
km2 which is around 10% of city. The median size of such site is 5.37 ha (Table 1).
The main type of abandoned land is semi-natural and it accounts for 66% of
all abandoned land. Usually it is previously agricultural land located on edges of
the city or around streams and in rivers valleys. Built-up abandoned land takes
only 4% of the whole abandoned land area. Previously industrial, railway and
military sites do not have a signi icant area in the city so their reclamation should
not be very problematic. Mixed areas which have both anthropogenic structures
and large areas of vegetation accounts for around 30% of abandoned land area.
The most important example of mixed abandoned land are ponds in excavation
pits left over by sand and clay mines and their surroundings in south-west of
the city.
Vegetation on abandoned land covers 2373,9 ha, which represents 94% area
of abandoned land and 9% area of the city. It is almost the same area as main-
Ta bl e 1
Types, amount and area of abandoned land in Poznań city
Type
Amount
[number]
Area
[%]
[ha]
[%]
Built-up
27
12.4%
104.04
4.2%
Mixed
56
25.8%
722.30
29.4%
Semi-natural
134
61.8%
1627.81
66.3%
Total
217
100.0%
2454.15
100.0%
T. McPhearson, P. Kremer, Z.A. Hamstead, Mapping ecosystem services in New York City. Applyinga social–ecological approach in urban vacant land, “Ecosystem Services” 2013 no. 5,
p. 11-26; E.G. King, R.J. Hobbs, Identifying linkages among conceptual models of ecosystem degradation and restoration: towards an integrative framework, “Restoration Ecology” 2006
no. 14(3), p. 369-378.
5 J.H. Breuste, Decision making, planning and design for the conservation of indigenous vegetation within urban development, “Landscape and Urban Planning” 2004 no. 68, p. 439-452.
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tained greenery which in Poznań covers an area of around 2250-2650 ha6 (not
counting urban forests). Trees and shrubs canopy on abandoned land have an
area of 805 ha (33% of abandoned land). An analysis of aerial imagery from 1998
had shown that an area of trees and shrubs canopy had 440 ha during that time,
so it almost doubled during next fourteen years. Natural succession in environment of Poznań usually leads to forming trees areas, so it can be expected that an
area of canopy will grow in the future. Water bodies and wetlands account for 5%
of abandoned land area and sealed grounds and buildings take only 1% of it.
Ecosystem services
Green areas in cities provide a wide variety of important ecosystem services7.
But ecosystem services of vegetation on abandoned land differ from those from
parks, allotment gardens and other maintained greenery in city. In most cases people do not bene it from direct provisioning services like energy, food or
materials provision because spontaneous vegetation is not cultivated to provide them. Also cultural services are not easy to identify because people have
mixed feeling about “wild nature” in the city and use it relatively rare and less
intensive than the urban parks5. On other hand, on abandoned land occurs
processes which are similar to natural areas and biodiversity is much higher
than in urban parks. These conditions cause that such land provides regulation and supporting services on higher level than in well maintained greenery. This services include:
• Regulation: groundwater recharge and water retention, climate regulation,
air puri ication, oxygen production, carbon sequestration, erosion regulation;
• Supporting: habitat provision, population and biodiversity maintaining, pollination.
In this study water retention, air puri ication and carbon sequestration were
chosen for detailed research.
Ecosystem services can be quanti ied either as biophysical units of the service or the social value of the service, for example, monetary8. The irst approach
was used in this study.
B. Hoffmann et al., Zieleń, Środowisko naturalne miasta Poznania, part I, Poznań 1996, p. 123139; Bank Danych Lokalnych, www.stat.gov.pl [10-09-2014].
7 H. Akbari, Shade trees reduce building energy use and CO emissions from power plants, “Envi2
ronmental Pollution” 2002 no. 116(Suppl.), p. S119–S126; P.T. McPhearson et al., Assessing the
effects of the urban forest restoration effort of million trees, NYC on the Structure and Functioning
of New York City, “Ecosystems Cities and the Environment” 2010 no. 3(1), p. 1-21; D.J. Nowak,
D.E. Crane, Carbon storage and sequestration by urban trees in the USA, “Environmental Pollution” 2002 no. 116, p. 381-389.
8 F. Müller, L. Willemen, R. DeGroot, Ecosystem services at the landscape scale: the need for integrative approaches, “Landscape Online” 2011, p. 1-11.
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Ecosystem services of abandoned land in Poznań
Abandoned land in Poznań has in most cases unsealed ground which allows
in iltration of rainwater. Also areas with a concrete or asphalt layer on abandoned
land due to not maintaining the rain drainage system cause that rainwater runoff is not getting to the city’s central drainage system.
The average annual precipitation in Poznań is 508 mm9. So it is easy to calculate that on the whole area of abandoned land around 12,8 billion litres of water
is falling which is not discharged into the drainage system.
This ecosystem service causes signi icant savings in a city’s budget because
intercepted rainwater does not have to be transported through the drainage system. Moreover thanks to water in iltration, groundwater is easier accessible by
plants and reduces the need for watering them. Water retention is especially important in Poznań because it is one of the regions with the smallest amount of
precipitation in Poland.
For determining a scale of air puri ication as well as carbon sequestration,
literature research was undertaken. Based on parameters established for an area
of trees and vegetation by other authors10 there were calculated tones of intercepted pollution and carbon. Unfortunately, there is lack of such studies focused
on spontaneous vegetation on abandoned land which probably having more vegetation layers, higher tree density and biodiversity has bigger potential for removing pollution and carbon from an atmosphere than maintained greenery.
In case of air puri ication especially removal of particles with diameter of 10
micrometres or less is important because the results of monitoring made by the
Tabl e 2
Pollution and carbon spontaneous by vegetation on abandoned land
Elements
SO2 removal
NO2 removal
PM10 removal
O3 removal
CO removal
Carbon sequestration
Carbon storage
Parameters
Results
Trees
Vegetation
g/m2yr
g/m2yr
1.32
2.54 g/m2yr
2.73 g/m2yr
3.06 g/m2yr
0.58 g/m2yr
0.12 kgC/year/m2
9.25 kgC/m2
0.65
2.33 g/m2yr
1.12 g/m2yr
0.18 kgC/m2
Trees [t]
10.7
20.5
22.1
24.7
4.7
97
7480.3
Vegetation [t]
10.4
37.2
17.9
287.1
Source: D.J. Nowak, D.E. Crane, op. cit., p. 381-389; H. Jo, G. McPherson, Carbon storage and flux in urban residential green-space; “Journal of Environmental Management” 1995 no. 45, p. 109-133; H. Zimny, Ekologia miasta,
Warszawa 2005; M. Czerwieniec, J. Lewińska, Zieleń w mieście, Kraków 2000.
9 R. Farat, Klimat Poznania. Środowisko naturalne miasta Poznania, cz. I, Poznań1996, p. 123-139.
D.J. Nowak, D.E. Crane, op. cit., p. 381-389; H. Jo, G. McPherson, Carbon storage and flux in urban residential green-space; “Journal of Environmental Management” 1995 no. 45, p. 109-133;
H. Zimny, Ekologia miasta, Warszawa 2005; M. Czerwieniec, J. Lewińska, Zieleń w mieście, Kraków
2000.
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Regional Inspectorate of Environmental Protection in Poznań shows that an acceptable level of this parameter (averaged over 24 hours) was exceeded 47 times
from January to August 201411. As for carbon, it is a major cause of global climate
change so allowing it to be stored in plants, could be used for mitigation of this
process.
Conclusion
Land is non-renewable resource and should be used in an ef icient way.
Meanwhile in cities large areas are permanently or temporarily not in use by
man. On these areas ecological succession is ongoing which could lead to formation of ecologically valuable ecosystems. An area on abandoned land in Poznań is
signi icant because it covers about 10% of the city. Vegetation on abandoned land
in Poznań is an important part of the whole city ecosystem similar to maintained
greenery. It has also crucial role in providing ecological services. Especially, regulation services as groundwater recharge and water retention, climate regulation,
air puri ication, oxygen production, carbon removal and erosion regulation.
This study shows that vegetation on abandoned land by providing ecosystem
services could be an important ally in reduction of local problems with groundwater resources and air pollution. It could also be used as a local tool for mitigation to a global climate change.
Unfortunately, areas of abandoned land with their valuable resources and
services are disappearing from cities. There is need for more detailed research on
this topic which should lead to developing tools to diagnose this area and provide
reasons to preserve some of them.
11
www.poznan.wios.gov.pl [10-09-2014].
Janina Borysiak • Małgorzata Mazurek • Zbigniew Zwoliński
LAND COVER AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
CHANGES IN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES
OF THE DĘBNICA RIVER CATCHMENT
(WEST POMERANIA, POLAND)
Prof. Janina Borysiak, Ph.D.
– Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Prof. AMU Małgorzata Mazurek, Ph.D. – Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Prof. AMU Zbigniew Zwoliński, Ph.D. – Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
ZMIANY W POKRYCIU TERENU I USŁUGACH EKOSYSTEMOWYCH
W KRAJOBRAZACH ROLNICZYCH ZLEWNI DĘBNICY
(POMORZE ZACHODNIE, POLSKA)
STRESZCZENIE: Porównano usługi ekosystemowe tych samych krajobrazów rolniczych z okresu centralnie planowanej gospodarki upaństwowionej i gospodarki rynkowej. Określono je na podstawie bioróżnorodności krajobrazowej wynikającej z użytkowania i pokrycia terenu. Bioróżnorodność została określona na podstawie kompleksów roślinności rzeczywistej zdelimitowanych metodą symfitosocjologiczną, drogą kartowania terenowego.
Kompleksy pozwoliły ocenić usługi z poziomu typów klasowych w hierarchicznej klasyfikacji CICES v4.3.
SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: krajobrazy rolnicze, bioróżnorodność, usługi ekosystemowe, pokrycie terenu, metoda symfitosocjologiczna, kompleks roślinności
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Introduction
In 2014, the assessment of ecosystems and their services in the member
states of the European Union will be completed. It is one of activities (Action 5)
within the framework of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 (J. Maes et al.1).
General tools were proposed, including Common International Classi ication of
Ecosystem Services (R. Haines-Young and M. Potschin2), which make it possible
to aggregate the obtained results on a Pan-European scale. To prepare this assessment, the data on geodiversity and biodiversity of geoecosystems and their
functions are required. In 2011-2014, geodiversity and biodiversity of geoecosystems of the Dębnica River catchment and a reaction of geoecosystems to anthropopressure were studied. Some changes in land cover were found (J. Borysiak et al.3), which correspond to the general trend for Poland stated by D. Łowicki and A. Mizgajski4. These changes, visible also in agriculture (R. Kulikowski5),
forestry and unused lands result, among others, from the political system transformation initiated in Poland on the end of 80. in 20th century. This paper presents some results from the study of the Dębnica River basin related to land cover, ecosystem biodiversity and ecosystem services. The application of the concept of real vegetation complex for the determination of changes in agricultural
space will be shown and, based on this, also changes in the catalog of ecosystem
services prepared according to the CICES v4.3 classi ication, currently tested in
Europe.
Data and methods
Study area
The land cover of four agricultural landscapes of the Dębnica River drainage
basin was diagnosed. This basin is a part of the irst order drainage basin of
1 J. Maes, A. Teller, M. Erhard et al., Mapping and assessment of ecosystems and their services.
An analytical framework for ecosystem assessments under action 5 of the EU biodiversity strategy to 2020, Luxembourg 2013.
2 R. Haines-Young, M. Potschin, Common international classi ication of ecosystem services
(CICES): Consultation on version 4. Raport to the Europaean Environment Agency, www.cices.eu
[20-09-2013].
3 J. Borysiak, M. Mazurek, Z. Zwoliński, Concept of sustainable management involves landscape
geodiversity of hydrogeomorphological units: the Dębnica River, Poland, The 8th IAG/AIG International Conference on Geomorphology and Sustainability, Paris, France, August 27-31, 2013.
4 D. Łowicki, A. Mizgajski, Typology of physical-geographical regions in Poland in line with
land-cover structure and its changes in the years 1990-2006, „Geographia Polonica” 2003 no. 86,
p. 255-266.
5 R. Kulikowski, Produkcja i towarowość rolnictwa w Polsce. Przemiany i zróżnicowania przestrzenne po II wojnie światowej, „Prace Geogra iczne Instytutu Geogra ii i Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania PAN” 2013 no. 241, p. 131.
Parsęta River. An analysis involved such spatial fragments for which land cover
on the topographic map 1:10000 in 1980 was different than in 2014. The use of
time criterion allowed to analyze land cover in two completely different periods
of economic development of Poland, i.e., nationalized, centrally planned economy
(1980) and market economy (2014). The modern pattern of Holocene and postglacial landforms of the Dębnica River catchment is mainly shaped by typical
lowland morphogenetic processes like: chemical denudation (which predominates over mechanical), erosion and accumulation produced by the runoff, incision in the upper reaches of rivers, alluvial sedimentation into loodplain terraces, bank erosion in the lower reaches of rivers, and degradation and aggradation
caused by anthropopression (Z. Zwoliński et al.6). An effect of these processes is
a high geodiversity (A. Kostrzewski et al.7) and, as a consequence, high biodiversity. In the areas with such features, a high differentiation of ecosystem services
is expected.
The studied landscape units are situated in the villages of: Kołacz (WGS:
N53o46’59.96” / E16o10’57.35”), Liniec (N53o45’19.81” / E16o18’19.9”), Łeknica
(N53o46’11.75” / E16o17’9.04”) and Uradz (N53o40’45.32” / E16o18’41.21”),
and covered the area of: 159, 155, 111 and 80 hectares, respectively. According to
J. Kondracki8, they belong to the subprovince of South Baltic Lake District and a
mesoregion of the Drawskie Lake District. They are situated in the marginal zone
of the Pomeranian phase of Vistulian (Weichselian) glaciation (A. Karczewski9).
The moraine plateau areas in the vicinity of Liniec and Łeknica sites are composed of glacial till, while in the Uradz site – of glacial gravel and silty sands or
glacial gravel and silty sands lying on glacial till (W. Popielski10). In the Kołacz site,
sands and gravels of kettle depressions, glacial gravel and silty sands, glacial till
and fens prevail. The valleys of rivers in the Liniec site are covered by sands and
slope deposits, while the valleys of rivers and depressions in Łeknica and Uradz
sites – by humus sands and peats. Glacial till is strongly sandy, decalci ied and
weathered, with a high content of Scandinavian erratics in the upper parts of
bedrock (W. Popielski11). The north-west area in the Uradz site is the valley of
Dębnica River, a watercourse fed by groundwater, rain and snow (I. Dynowska12).
Z. Zwoliński, A. Kostrzewski, A. Stach, Tło geogra iczne współczesnej ewolucji rzeźby młodoglacjalnej, in: L. Starkel, A. Kostrzewski, A. Kotarba, K. Krzemień (eds.), Współczesne przemiany
rzeźby Polski, Kraków, 2008, p. 271-276.
7 A. Kostrzewski, R. Kolander, J. Szpikowski, Zintegrowany monitoring środowiska przyrodniczego, in: Raport o stanie środowiska przyrodniczego w województwie zachodniopomorskim
2006-2007, „Biblioteka Monitoringu Środowiska” 2008, p. 198-222.
8 J. Kondracki, Geogra ia regionalna Polski, Warszawa 1998, p. 440.
9 A. Karczewski, Morfogeneza strefy marginalnej fazy pomorskiej na obszarze lobu Parsęty
w vistulianie (Pomorze Środkowe), Poznań 1989, p. 48.
10 W. Popielski, Szczegółowa mapa geologiczna Polski 1:50 000, arkusz 159-Barwice (N-33-81-D),
Kielce 2001.
11 W. Popielski, Objaśnienia do Szczegółowej mapy geologicznej Polski 1:50 000. Arkusz Barwice
(159), Warszawa 2005.
12 I. Dynowska, Typy reżimów rzecznych w Polsce, „Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Prace Geogra iczne” 1971 no. 28, p. 155.
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According to the climate regionalization by A. Woś13, the studied landscape units
are located in the Central Pomeranian Region.
Field mapping
In 2014, in the irst stage of the site, the phytocoenotic diversity of landscape
units of sites Kołacz, Liniec, Łeknica and Uradz was diagnosed by mapping in the
ield. Plant associations were identi ied following syntaxonomical survey of
A. Brzeg and M. Wojterska14, and W. Matuszkiewicz15. The result of diagnosis was
used to make symphytosociological relevés in the real vegetation complexes according to the method of R. Tüxen16. These complexes were homogenous regarding one (areally dominant) potential natural vegetation and, also, the same (areally dominant) way of land use and land cover. Potential natural vegetation was
determined according to R. Tüxen (after A. Richling and J. Solon17). The complex
position in the hierarchical structure of landscape was given by J. M. Matuszkiewicz18 – it is a geosystem of the next higher rank than ecosystem, the type of
biocoenosis. To each plant association of the complex, syngenesis according to
the classi ication of J. B. Faliński19 was assigned. Also, symphytosociological
relevés made in the villages of Pustkowie (N53o45’33.67”/E16o30’12.6”) and
Przybkowo (N53o43’45.26”/E16o30’34.09”) were used for the result interpretation. Ecosystem services were assigned to the delimited types of the real vegetation complex, following the classi ication CICES v4.3. Each service from the class
type level was credited with one score.
A. Woś, Zarys stosunków klimatycznych w rejonie górnego odcinka zlewni Parsęty, in: A. Kostrzewski (ed.), Zintegrowany monitoring środowiska przyrodniczego. Stacja Bazowa Storkowo,
„Biblioteka Monitoringu Środowiska”, Warszawa 1994, p. 79-96.
14 A. Brzeg, M. Wojterska, Zespoły roślinne Wielkopolski, ich stan poznania i zagrożenie, in:
M. Wojterska (ed.), Szata roślinna Wielkopolski i Pojezierza Południowopomorskiego, Poznań
2001, p. 39-110.
15 W. Matuszkiewicz, Przewodnik do oznaczania zbiorowisk roślinnych Polski, Warszawa 2011,
p. 536.
16 R. Tüxen, Zür Homogenität von Sigmassoziationen, ihrer syntaxonomischen Ordnung und ihrer Verwendung in der Vegetations Kartierung, „Doc. Phytosoc., N.S.” 1977 no. 1, p. 321-327.
17 A. Richling, J. Solon, Ekologia krajobrazu, Warszawa 2011, p. 464.
18 J. M. Matuszkiewicz, Landscape phytocomplexe and vegetation landscape real and typological
landscape units of vegetation, „Doc. Phytosoc. N. S.” 1979 no. 4, p. 663-672.
19 J. B. Faliński, Zbiorowiska autogeniczne i antropogeniczne. Próba określenia i klasy ikacji, „Ekologia Polska B” 1969 no. 15, p. 173-182.
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Fi gu re 1
Structural changes in agricultural landscapes in the Dębnica River catchment
(West Pomerania, Poland)
1980, 2014 – case study years; vegetation complex type in analyzed sites: Ae – arable land in extensive cultivation,
Ai – arable land probably in intensive cultivation, F – forest, M – meadow, Mf – mowed fallow, Mo – mosaic of natural phytocoenoses (forest, shrub, tall herb fringe), O – orchard in sod, P – pond; syngenesis of vegetation complex: N – natural, SN – seminatural, SS – synanthropic segetal;
locality of sites (name of village): K – Kołacz, L – Liniec, Ł – Łeknica, U – Uradz;
Results
Land cover changes
In the analyzed agricultural landscapes, substantial changes in land cover in
relation to 1980 were observed (Figure 1). In Kołacz site, arable land disappeared. It was replaced by mowed fallow land (47%) and in considerable part
(5%) – forest biotopes. Also, the area of meadows and pastures decreased from
47% to 37%, while 10% of the transformed area is occupied by the tall herb
fringe-shrub-forest complex. In Liniec site, the area of arable land decreased by
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65%, mainly in favour of mowed fallow land. The contribution of meadows decreased from 6% to 2%, and they were replaced by the mosaic of forest and shrub
patches, and tall herb fringe communities. In Łeknica site, a pond of 11 hectares
was constructed at the cost of the half of meadow area, 21% of meadows was
replaced either by tall herb fringe-shrub-forest formation or forest, and 25% of
arable land was transformed into a fruit orchard in sod. In Uradz site, arable land
also disappeared; 89% of its area changed into mowed fallow land. However, in
the valley of the Dębnica River almost the whole complex of meadows (89%)
survived. Along with the changes in land cover, an intensity of the synanthropization
process decreased in all analyzed landscapes. It was assumed that in 1980, when arable land was managed by the state farms, an intensive farming was practiced.
Agrochemical treatments were used that suppressed the growth of weeds.
It is presumed that at that time, only synanthropic vegetation of herbicidal fallow
occurred. In 2014, mostly, semi-natural vegetation of mowed fallow land was
found, as well as fruit orchards in sod, with the mowed strips between the rows
of trees and with no traces of herbicides within the tree and shrub rows. In the
large areas of former meadows and pastures, the secondary biocoenotic succession took place. It resulted in the replacement of semi-natural vegetation by natural vegetation. In the remaining arable land, abundance of weeds and very well
developed phytocoenoses of segetal synanthropic associations were found, what
proves extensive farming.
To show the renaturalization degree of the analyzed agricultural landscapes,
the phytocoenotic structure and syngenesis of new substitute complexes of real
vegetation were presented (Table 1). The four new complexes – water and rush
vegetation of the constructed pond (P), forest (F) and tall herb fringe-shrub-forest (Mo), were documented. Also, the relevés taken in the preserved meadow
complexes (M) were included. Next column shows the segetal complex of extensively used arable land, while the last column – the same type of arable land complex (Ae) traditionally cultivated for over 65 years (personal information from
a farmer). The phytocoenotic structure of the Łeknica complex (Ae) compared to
this type of complex from Pustkowie (Ae) may be an evidence for extensive farming in Łeknica. Table does not include new complexes of mowed fallow land and
fruit orchards. Vegetation of such units has undetermined phytocoenotic relationships and consists mainly of native species from Molinio-Arrhenatheretea
and Artemisietea. Mowing, and sometimes also grazing (e.g. goat herds in Liniec
site), justi ies classi ication of this vegetation to the semi-natural type.
Ecosystem services changes
Table 2 presents comparison of ecosystem services for the seven types of real
vegetation complexes that, in 2014, occupied the land of the four studied landscape sites. The last column in the table shows services related to the complex
type connected with the intensively cultivated arable land replaced by new types.
In 2011-2014, this type was observed only in the area of large-scale agricultural
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Fi gu re 2
Changes in ecosystem services of agricultural landscapes in the Dębnica River catchment (West Pomerania, Poland)
1980
2014
1980, 2014 – case study years; vegetation complex type in analyzed sites: Ae – arable land in extensive cultivation, Ai – arable land
probably in intensive cultivation, F – forest, M – meadow, Mf – mowed fallow, Mo – mosaic of natural phytocoenoses (forest, shrub,
tall herb fringe), O – orchard in sod, P – pond; syngenesis of vegetation complex: N – natural, SN – seminatural, SS – synanthropic
segetal; locality of complex, name of village: K – Kołacz, L – Liniec, Ł – Łeknica, U – Uradz
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Table 1
Phytocoenotic structure of vegetation complexes in changed agricultural landscapes
(the Dębnica river catchment, West Pomerania, Poland)
Investigated sites
Specification
Łeknica Kołacz
Vegetation complex
P
Uradz
F
Uradz
Kołacz
Mo
Uradz
Łeknica
M
Pustkowie
Ae
Area of sigmassociation (ha)
0,2
0,8
1,1
0,7
0,5
0,5
0,9
Share of natural phytocoenoses (% N)
100
98
100
100
10
25
-
-
Share of seminatural phytocoenoses (% SN)
-
2
-
-
90
75
-
-
Share of segetal (weet) phytocoenoses (% SS)
-
-
-
-
-
-
95
95
Share of ruderal phytocoenoses (% SR)
-
-
-
-
-
-
5
5
Syn
10
8
5
12
10
12
4
6
Salicetum auritae Jonas 1935 em. Oberd. 1964
N
2O
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Glycerietum maximae (Allorge 1922) Hueck 1931
N
2/
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Phragmitetum communis (W. Koch 1926) Schmale
1939
N
1/
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Caricetum elatae W. Koch 1926
N
2.
.
.
.
+.
.
.
.
Caricetum paniculatae Wangerin 1916 ex
v. Rochow 1951
N
1.
.
.
.
+.
1.
.
.
Hottonietum palustris R. Tx. 1937 ex Pfeiffer 1941
N
1.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Junco-Molinietum (R. Tx. 1937) Preising in R. Tx.
et Preising 1951 em. Pass. 1964
N
1.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Lemnetum minoris Soó 1927
N
1.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Potametum natantis Soó 1927 ex Podbielkowski
et Tomaszewicz 1978
N
1.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Sagittario-Sparganietum emersi R. Tx. 1953
N
1.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
N
.
5O
.
.
.
.
.
.
N
.
1.
.
.
.
.
.
.
SN
.
+.
.
.
.
.
.
.
N
.
+.
.
.
.
.
.
.
N
.
+.
.
.
.
.
.
.
SN
.
+.
.
.
.
.
.
.
N
.
+.
+.
.
.
.
.
.
N
.
+.
+.
.
.
.
.
.
Number of associations
0,8
Associations
Calamagrostio arundinaceae-Quercetum petraeae
(Hart. 1934) Scam. et Pass. 1959
Agrostio-Populetum tremulae Pass. in Pass. et
Hofm. 1968
Armerio elongatae-Festucetum ovinae R. Knapp
1944 ex Celiński 1953
Calamagrostietum epigeios Juraszek 1928
Euonymo-Prunetum spinosae (Hueck 1931) Pass.
in Pass. et Hofmann 1968
Sieglingio-Agrostietum capillaris Balc. et Brzeg
1978
Rubetum idaei Malinowski et Dziubałtowski 1914
em. Oberd. 1973
Torilidetum japonicae Lohmeyer in Oberd. et al.
1979 ex Görs et Th. Müller 1969
Deschampsio lexuosae-Fagetum Schroder 1938
N
.
.
5O
.
.
.
.
.
Stellario-Carpinetum Oberd. 1957
N
.
.
1/
.
.
.
.
.
Agrimonio-Vicietum cassubicae Pass. 1967 nom.
invers.
N
.
.
+.
.
.
.
.
.
213
Fraxino-Alnetum W. Mat. 1952
N
.
.
.
5O
.
.
.
.
N
.
.
.
2.
.
.
.
.
N
.
.
.
1O
.
.
.
.
N
.
.
.
+.
.
.
.
.
N
.
.
.
+.
.
.
.
.
SN
.
.
.
+.
.
.
.
.
N
.
.
.
+.
.
.
.
.
Urtico-Calystegietum Görs et Th. Müller 1969
N
.
.
.
+.
.
.
.
.
Epilobio hirsuti-Convolvuletum Hilbig, Heinrich
et Niemann 1972
N
.
.
.
+.
+.
.
.
.
Eupatorietum cannabini R. Tx. 1937
N
.
.
.
+.
.
+.
.
.
Filipendulo-Geranietum palustris (Scherrer 1923)
W. Koch 1926
N
.
.
.
+.
.
2O
.
.
Scirpetum silvatici Ralski 1931
N
.
.
.
+.
2O
2O
.
.
Angelico-Cirsietum oleracei R. Tx. 1937 em. 1947
SN
.
.
.
.
5O
4O
.
.
Stellario palustris-Deschampsietum cespitosae
Freitag 1957
SN
.
.
.
.
2O
2O
.
.
Caricetum acutiformis Eggler 1933
N
.
.
.
.
1.
+.
.
.
Lysimachio vulgaris-Filipenduletum Bal.-Tulačkova
1978
N
.
.
.
.
+.
1.
.
.
Phalaridetum arundinaceae Libbert 1931
N
.
.
.
.
+.
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1964
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1931
Cardamino-Chrysosplenietum alternifolii Maas
1959
Euonymo-Coryletum Pass. in Pass. et Hofmann
1968
Prunello vulgaris-Plantaginetum brachystachyae
Faliński 1961 ex 1963
Stachyo sylvaticae-Impatientetum noli-tangere
(Pass. 1967) Hilbig 1972
Peucedano-Calamagrostietum canescentis Weber
1978
Digitarietum ischaemi R. Tx. et Preising in R. Tx.
1950 ex R. Tx. 1954
Setario-Lycopsietum arvensis Pass. 1959
Convolvulo arvensis-Agropyretum repentis Felfoldy
(1942) 1943
Papaveretum argemones Kruseman et Vlieger
1939
Echinochloo-Setarietum pumilae Felfoldy 1942
corr. Mucina 1993
Sclerantho-Arnoseridetum minimae R. Tx. 1937
Vegetation complex: Ae – arable land in extensive cultivation, F – forest, M – meadow, Mo – mosaic of natural
phytocoenoses (forest, shrub, tall herb fringe), P – pond; Syn – syngenesis of association: N – autogenous
natural, SN – anthropogenic seminatural, SS – synanthropic segetal (weed communities), SR – synanthropic
ruderal; pattern of association patch in vegetation complex: O – over great surface, / – in long, narrow linear
form, . – singular or dispersed in irregular form; quantity acc. to Braun-Blanquet scale: + – one patch of phytocoenose or a few ones; 1 – <5%, 2 – 5-25%, 3 – 25-50%, 4 – 50-75%, 5 – 75-100%
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Table 2
Ecosystem services of vegetation complex types (Dębnica River catchment)
Type of vegetation complex
Section
Division
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Class
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M

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Ae – arable land in extensive cultivation, Ai – arable land in intensive cultivation, F – forest, M – meadow, Mf –
mowed fallow (former arable land), Mo – mosaic of natural phytocoenoses (of forest, shrub, tall herb fringe patch),
O – orchard in turf, P – pond; syngenesis of vegetation complex: N – autogenous natural, SN – anthropogenic
seminatural, SS – anthropogenic synanthropic segetal (weed plant communities)
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cooperatives, as, for instance, in the village of Przybkowo. The total number of
scores for ecosystem services of all types of complexes (Table 2) from the section
‘provisioning’ is similar and stays within the range 5-7. The total sum within each
type comprises the same or completely different services from the class type level. Similar situation concerns more less evened score for the services from the
‘regulating and maintenance’ section (12-14 scores). An exception is a low score
for the segetal vegetation complex connected with arable land (Ae and Ai). In the
section ‘cultural’, the number of scores for the mowed fallow land complex (Mf)
and fruit orchards in sod (O) is equal, but much lower than for the forest, mosaic
and pond-related complexes (F, Mo, P and M).
Appropriately to the character of changes in land cover, also ecosystem services changed in all tested landscape units (Figure 2). In each one, the general
number of services in all sections increased. In Łeknica site, it is an increase of
84%, in Liniec site – 79%, while in Kołacz and Uradz sites – 72%. The highest
increase (86% and 92%) was noted in the section ’regulating and maintenance’,
which results from the very high decrease in the synanthropization level.
Concluding remarks
In the preparation of the list of ecosystem services and, earlier, in the assessment of landscape biodiversity, the concept of real vegetation complex was used.
Previously, J. Solon20 indicated the possibility of using such spatial unit of biosphere organisation in studies of the relationship between land cover and biodiversity, as well as an analysis of landscape changes in time. Delimitation of complexes based on ield mapping, made it possible to provide ecosystem services
from the class type level, while the presented catalog of services re lects the real
state and can be the source of reliable information for the determination of environmental management directions.
The presented changes that took place in 1980-2014 are largely an effect of
transition from nationalized, centrally planned economy (1989) to market economy and, also, the realization of agri-environmental schemes. According to
A. Sadłowski21, the period of industrial intensi ication of farming was inished in
1989. The cause of changes in land cover was a low economic effectiveness of
cultivating the land of a low agricultural usefulness. After 1989, sandy, highly
skeletal, of poor fertility and with low underground water table arable land has
been covered by spontaneously developed vegetation due to the lack of ploughing. Nowadays, this vegetation is mainly mowed and has been largely included in
the agri-environmental schemes (personal information from its users). Complex20 J. Solon, Ocena różnorodności krajobrazu na podstawie analizy struktury przestrzennej roślin-
ności, „Prace Geogra iczne Instytutu Geogra ii i Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania PAN” 2002
no. 185, p. 232.
21 A. Sadłowski, Płatności obszarowe jako instrument polityki ochrony środowiska, “Journal of
Agribusiness and Rural Development” 2011 no. 4(22), p. 145-151.
es of segetal synanthropic vegetation, connected with intensively cultivated arable land, were replaced by multifunctional mosaic of agricultural landscape.
Spontaneous reafforestation took place on the poorest, sandy fallow land and on
permanent grasslands with long-stagnant water. The disappearance of open
landscapes of fallow land and permanent grasslands due to giving up cultivation
and regeneration of natural forest vegetation was many times reported (e.g.
M. Hunziker22, B. Barabasz-Krasny23, K. Falińska24, M. Gellrich et al.25, J. M. Matuszkiewicz et al.26). Apart from reafforestation, also a homogenization of landscape with the contribution of natural and semi-natural complexes took place.
It is the reverse process to the anthropogenic fragmentation of space (J. Solon27).
Such situation is connected with the decrease in synanthropization level and increase in natural biodiversity. It was proved, for instance, as the result of investigation of spontaneous succession on the abandoned ield in Białowieża (W. Adamowski and A. Bomanowska28), as well as on the post-agricultural land in the
Wielkopolski National Park (S. Balcerkiewicz and G. Pawlak29). During 36 years
in Białowieża and 25 years in the Wielkopolski NP, the majority of anthropophytes subsided and was replaced by native species, while weed plant communities was replaced by juvenile forest phytocoenoses. K. Hedlund et al.30 documented an increase in biodiversity during the early secondary succession on the former arable land, based on the studies in ive European countries.
An increase from 72 to 84% in ecosystem services at the class type level took
place, depending on the section. Present-day, the transformed agricultural landscapes have two basic functions: one of them – food production, is continued. The
other is protection of environment and it is strongly connected with the increase
in biodiversity. This increase results from elimination of agroecosystems with
M. Hunziker, The spontaneous reafforestration in abandoned agricultural lands: perception
and aesthetic assessment by locals and tourists, “Landscape and Urban Planning” 1995 no. 31,
s. 399-410.
23 B. Barabasz-Krasny, Sukcesja roślinności na łąkach, pastwiskach i nieużytkach porolnych
Pogórza Przemyskiego, “Fragm. Flor. Geobot. Polonica, Suppl.” 2002 no. 4, p. 3-81.
24 K. Falińska, Alternative pathways of succession: species turnover patterns in meadows abandoned for 30 years, “Phytocoenosis 15 (N. S.), Archiv. Geobot.” 2003 no. 9, p. 104.
25 M. Gellrich, P. Baur, B. Koch, N. E. Zimmermann, Agricultural land abandonment and natural
forest re-growth in the Swiss mountains: A spatially explicit economic analysis, “Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment” 2007 no. 118, p. 93-108.
26 J. M. Matuszkiewicz, A. Kowalska, J. Solon, Long-term evolution models of post-agricultural
forests, „Prace Geogra iczne Instytutu Geogra ii i Zagospodarowania Przestrzennego PAN”
2013 no. 240, p. 312.
27 J. Solon, Ocena różnorodności krajobrazu ..., op. cit.
28 W. Adamowski, A. Bomanowska, Forest return on an abandoned ield secondary succession
under monitored conditions, “Folia Biologica et Oecologica” 2010 no. 7, p. 49-73.
29 S. Balcerkiewicz, G. Pawlak, Antropo ity na tle dynamiki roślinności – studium na podstawie
długoterminowego eksperymentu na powierzchni stałej, “Acta Botanica Silesiaca” 2011 no. 6,
s. 63-80.
30 K. Hedlund, I. Santa Regina, W. H. Van der Putten et al., Plant species diversity, plant biomass
and responses of the soil community on abandoned land across Europe: idiosyncracy or above-belowground time lags, “Oikos” 2003 no. 10, p. 45-58.
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synanthropic vegetation. The dependence of ecosystem services on the biodiversity state is widely stressed (J. Borysiak31, J. Maes et al.32). W. Dembek33 reported
that in the past decade, realization of common agricultural policy in the European Union was of essential signi icance for the improvement of environmental
conditions of rural areas. The aim of this policy is implementation of multifunctional agriculture. An instrument, which will allow to keep both the new and preserved natural and semi-natural complexes of real vegetation and their ecosystem services, are the agri-environmental and climate schemes, realized since
2014 (Project34). It implies a remuneration system for farmers for providing
noncommercial environmental services. The role of a farmer as a provider of
public goods was clearly emphasized in the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 202035.
31 J. Borysiak, Ecosystem services of extensive wet grasslands. Wielkopolska Region (Poland) case
study, „Ekonomia i Środowisko” 2012 no. 42, p. 136-152.
J. Maes, A. Teller, M. Erhard et al., Mapping and assessment of ecosystems and their services ...
op. cit.
33 W. Dembek, Problemy ochrony polskiej przyrody w kontekście wspólnej polityki rolnej, „Woda-Środowisko-Obszary Wiejskie” 2012 no. 12(4), p. 109-121.
34 Projekt Programu Rozwoju Obszarów Wiejskich na lata 2014-2020 (PROW 2014-2020), www.
minrol.gov.pl [20-09-2014].
35 The EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, Luxembourg: Publications Of ice of the European Union, 2011, www.ec.europa.eu [20-09-2014].
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Marta Szkaradkiewicz • Szymon Szewrański • Jan Kazak
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES HOT SPOT MAPPING:
PROTECTED AREAS IN THE LOWER
SILESIA PROVINCE
Marta Szkaradkiewicz, M.Sc.
Szymon Szewrański, Ph.D.
Jan Kazak Jan, M.Sc.
– Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Science
Department of Spatial Economy
Grunwaldzka 53, 50-357 Wroclaw
ANALIZA ZRÓŻNICOWANIA PRZESTRZENNEGO WYBRANYCH
USŁUG EKOSYSTEMÓW NA TLE OBSZARÓW CHRONIONYCH
W WOJEWÓDZTWIE DOLNOŚLĄSKIM
STRESZCZENIE: Niezbędna jest poprawa wiedzy na temat ekosystemów i oferowanych przez nie usług w krajach
należących do Unii Europejskiej, aby osiągnąć główne cele zapisane w Strategii ochrony różnorodności biologicznej do 2020 roku. Z tego powodu państwa członkowskie, we współpracy z Komisją Europejską, są zobowiązane
zidentyfikować i ocenić stan ekosystemów i ich usług. Istnieją różne podejścia do mapowania usług ekosystemów, z których jednym jest analiza hot spot. Jest ona dobrym narzędziem do identyfikacji obszarów, które nie są
chronione, lecz są ekologicznie cenne i dostarczają wielu usług ekosystemów. W badaniu przeprowadzono analizę czterech potencjałów usług ekosystemów: globalnej regulacji klimatu, kontroli erozji, moderacji ekstremalnych zjawisk i dostarczania wody pitnej. Większość z punktów hot spot dla wybranych usług ekosystemów województwa dolnośląskiego była zlokalizowana w obrębie obszarów chronionych, zwłaszcza tych objętych ochroną
w formie Natura 2000.
SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: usługi ekosystemów, kartowanie za pomocą narzędzi GIS, wojewodztwo dolnośląskie
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Introduction
The concept of ecosystem service has recently gained a lot of academic attention1. There have been many research initiatives concerning the classi ication2,
mapping3 and valuation of ecosystem services4. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) was the irst and the biggest research project concerning this
topic. MA (2005) provided the most commonly recognized de inition of ecosystem services, which is bene its that human obtain from nature, and categorization
of services into: supporting, regulating, provisioning and cultural5. Although this
division and distinction between ecosystem functions, services and products are
still under discussion6, it is commonly understood that in order to include ecosystem services into decision making processes the systematization is necessary.
The ecosystem service concept provides new approach to translate the importance of natural capital and its contribution to improving human well-being into
economic value. This very anthropogenic perspective may be implemented into
environmental policy documents and spatial planning7. Ecosystem services has
already been included in the European Union Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, the
main aim of which is to maintain and restore ecosystems and their services8.
In order to achieve this it is necessary to improve knowledge on ecosystems and
services they deliver in countries belonging to the European Union9. Therefore,
Member States, in cooperation with the European Commission, are obliged to
identify and assess the state of ecosystems and their services and measure the
economic value of these services10. Under the action 5 of the Biodiversity Strategy each country should map ecosystem services by 2014. In order to facilitate
this process European Commission has run several projects among which MAES11
(Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services) presents availabili1 R. Costanza, I. Kubiszewski, The authorship structure of “ecosystem services” as a transdiscipli-
nary ield of scholarship, “Ecosystem Services” 2012 no. 1, p. 16-25.
R. S. de Groot et al., A typology for the classi ication, description and valuation of ecosystem
functions, goods and services, “Ecological Economics” 2002 no. 41(3), p. 393-408.
3 B. Burkhard et al., Mapping and modelling ecosystem services for science, policy and practice.
“Ecosystem Services” 2013 no. 4, p. 1-3.
4 J. P. Schägner et al., Mapping ecosystem services’ values: Current practice and future prospects.
“Ecosystem Services” 2013 no. 4, p. 33-46.
5 MEA, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Ecosystems and Human Well- Being: Synthesis, Washington DC 2005.
6 K. J. Wallace, Classi ication of ecosystem services: Problems and solutions, “Biological Conservation” 2007 no. 139, p. 235-246.
7 B. Raszka, M. Hełdak, Świadczenia ekosystemów w polityce przestrzennej gmin powiatu wrocławskiego, Wrocław 2013.
8 The EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, Luxemburg 2011.
9 R. Brouwer et al., A synthesis of approaches to assess and value ecosystem services in the EU in
the context of TEEB Final Report 2013.
10 The EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, Luxemburg 2011.
11 J. Maes et al., Mapping ecosystem services for policy support and decision making in the European Union, “Ecosystem Services” 2012 no. 1(1), p. 31-39.
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ty of data necessary to set indicators on national level. MAES is based in the Common Classi ication of Ecosystem Services (CICES v4.3).
Even before the European Union’s initiatives, mapping ecosystem services
has been a topic of academic research in Europe12 and outside Europe13.
In Poland the case study mapping attempts have mostly been done for smallscale, detailed unit areas. That is why we decided to conduct a study for the whole
Lower Silesia province which is struggling in achieving balance between nature
conservation and socio-economic development. Even though there are publications on spatial distribution on natural resources and the state of the environment14, these studies have seldom presented distribution of ecosystem services15.
The aim of the paper is to contrast existing protected areas which are environmentally valuable according to traditional preservation rules with the areas
where provision of the selected ecosystem services is the greatest according to
the current research standards on ecosystem service hotspot mapping. In order
to achieve that we developed the comprehensive method for mapping ecosystem
services which could be applied in the national ecosystem assessment process.
We selected four ecosystem services, each of which is spatially presented and
evaluated using appropriate indicators. The services we consider are global climate regulation, moderation of extreme events, erosion control, and fresh water
provision. According to the Common International Classi ication of Ecosystem
Services vol. 4.3 these ES could be divided into two section: provisioning and
regulating. Fresh water provision belongs to ecosystem service class ground water for drinking, whereas the rest of selected ES belong to the following classes:
global climate regulation by reduction of greenhouse gas concentrations, lood
protection, and mass stabilization and control of erosion rates. The choice of ecosystem services is governed by literature overview and the possibility for them to
be quanti ied. The research results show spatial distribution and overlaid of individual ecosystem service, on the basis of which the aggregated ecosystem service
map is produced. The Lower Silesia region is the study area selected for this research as it is faced with common for the whole country spatial problems such as
excessing soil sealing, poor water relations balance and expansion of built-up
areas. On the other hand, Lower Silesia is the region characterized by one of the
best environmental conditions and a lot of Nature 2000 areas in Poland.
L. C. Braat, ECOSER 4th Volume: Special issue on mapping and modelling ecosystem services,
“Ecosystem Services” 2013 no. 4.
13 M. Petter et al., A methodology to map ecosystem functions to support ecosystem, “Ecology and
Society” 2013 no. 18(1).
14 Chief Inspectorate for Environmental Protection, Report on the state of the environment in
Poland 2008, Warsaw 2010.
15 A. Mizgajski, M. Stępniewska, Ecosystem services assessment for Poland – challenges and possible solutions, “Economics and Environment” 2012 no. 2 (42), p. 54-73.
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Study area
The case study region Lower Silesia province (LSp) is one of the main 16 administrative divisions (viovodships) in Poland. It is located in the southwest part
of the country (Figure 1). The total population of the region is almost three millions. The biggest urban centre and the capital of a province is the city of Wroclaw. Wroclaw metropolitan area has got around 1 million inhabitants what
makes it the ifth biggest city in Poland. Constantly expanding suburbanization
processes impose greater impact on the protected environmentally valuable areas located in human settlement proximity.
The Lower Silesia region has got one of the best environmental conditions in
the country. The growing season here is the longest in Poland (above 220 days)
and winters are much milder. There is a temperate climate with an average annual temperature of 7,7°C and an average annual precipitation of 595 mm. The region is very diverse in landscape forms. The east and northern parts of the province is covered with lowlands whereas in south-west there are Sudeten Foreland
and part of the Sudetes mountain range. The Odra River is a main supplier of
fresh waters for the region. At the same the river basin is at high risk of looding.
The greatest of lood happened in 1997 when almost half of the province was affected. The region is covered with relatively good quality soils in Poland. The ration of good quality soils to rather bed soils is positive. Because of its unique environmental resources there are several forms of protection introduced to the
region (two national parks, 12 landscape parks and 20 protected landscape areas), which covers less than 20 percent of the province. However, the region is
dense with forests (around 30 percent of the area) and agricultural lands (50
percent of the area).
The Lower Silesia attracts a lot of tourists every year. Most of the tourist inlux is directed to the city of Wroclaw, but still many people visit less built-up areas. Most attractive natural place are Sudetes Mountains and Sudeten Foreland.
Materials and methods
There are different approaches to map ecosystem services. In MAES second
technical report16 three main approaches were presented:
• Ecosystem services mapping using available indicators,
• Ecosystem services mapping linking different indicators with land use data,
• Model-based approaches to map ecosystem services.
The irst approach is perceived as the simplest way to map ecosystem services since it requires the usage of available indicators and presenting their values
MAES, Mapping and assessment of ecosystems and their services. Indicators for ecosystem assessments under Action 5 of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, European Commission, 2nd
technical report – Final, February 2014.
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Fi gu re 1
The Lower Silesia province and its location in Poland
Fi gu re 2
Method for estimating ecosystem service potential in protected areas
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spatially. Second approach combines indicators with land use data and the last
one encompasses modelling biophysical processes instead. The hotspot mapping
for Lower Silesia province involved irst two ways to visualize ecosystem service
potential and capacity. First of all, the hotspot of global climate regulation and
erosion control were identi ied. Then the moderation of extreme events – lood
protection was added and the last ES fresh water provision was mapped using
0-1 when underground water springs were identi ied (Figure 2).
The quality of the ES maps increase with the use of primary data and representative sampling rather than secondary data taken from look-up tables, expert
knowledge and casual relationships17. However, the hotspot analysis was carried
out using secondary data sources for the case study area being the Lower Silesia
province. Types of data source consisted of biophysical, topographical, hydrological, and land-cover data available at different resolutions. Although 100 m resolution Corine Land Cover (CLC) raster data served as a basis, the erosion control
map’s one kilometre resolution was inally adapted. Maps were produced using
ArcGIS 10 software and were not veri ied in the ield due to the fact that was not
the aim of the research.
The analysis of the spatial distribution of ecosystem services was conducted
on the basis of land cover classes distinguished in the Corine Land Cover. Then,
the areas with the highest total value of ecosystem service level indicators were
compared with valuable natural areas in the Lower Silesia which are subject to
various forms of protection. On the basis of that the areas have been identi ied
where a high level of services provided ecosystems overlap with areas designated as environmentally valuable.
Climate regulation service is de ined as the in luence of ecosystems on climate18. In this study we assumed that carbon stock potential was based on the
relationships between land use and carbon stock. There are different approaches
to map global climate regulation, most often applied are carbon storage layer19,
mean f-evapotranspiration value and mean emissivity index20 or carbon sequestration21. For the purpose of this study erosion control is de ined as contrary to
soil erosion. PESERA – The Pan-European Soil Erosion Risk Assessment – is the
map produced by the Joint Research Centre under European Commission. It is a
M. J. Martínez-Harms, P. Balvanera, Methods for mapping ecosystem service supply: a review,
“International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management” 2012
no. 8(1-2), p. 17-25.
18 L.C. Braat, R. de Groot, The ecosystem services agenda: bridging the worlds of natural science
and economics, conservation and development, and public and private policy, ”Ecosystem Services” 2012 no. 1(1), p. 4-15.
19 H.K. Gibbs, Major world ecosystem complexes ranked by carbon in live vegetation: an updated
database using the GLC2000 land cover product. Oak Ridge (TN), Oak 2006.
20 N. Schwarz, A. Bauer, D. Haase, Assessing climate impacts of planning policies. An estimation
for the urban region of Leipzig (Germany), ”Environmental Impact Assessment Review” 2011
no. 31(2), p. 97-111.
21 G.E. Ausseil et al., Assessment of multiple ecosystem services in New Zealand at the catchment
scale, ”Environmental Modelling & Software” 2013 no. 43, p. 37-48.
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model that quanti ies soil erosion by water and assess its risk across Europe22.
PESERA may replace such methods as Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) which
is very often use for mapping that ES. Moderation of extreme events type of ecosystem service is mapped by presenting areas of potential lood prevention characteristics – wetlands. Flood protection was chosen considering the yearly looding in the region due to its topographic and hydrological conditions. The Lower
Silesia Province experienced catastrophic looding in 1997. Fresh water provision ecosystem service for the purpose of this study is limited to underground
fresh water sources. This ES is diversely de ined in the literature. One may ind
that clean water provision is measured by nitrate leaching23.
Results
The hot spot analysis of global climate regulation proves considerable ecosystem service potential for the region (Figure 3). All the high values for this ES
provision constitute hot spot, the greatest number of which are located in the
north-west part of the province, within Nature 2000 site of Bory Dolnośląskie.
It is scienti ically suggested that forests and peatlands are carbon sinks24 which
is also proven by the results for the irst out of four ES potential. Moreover, high
carbon stock potential is correlated with the erosion control ecosystem service
and therefore most of the hot spot of climate regulation are overlaid by erosion
control ES potential (Figure 4). However, erosion control is in luenced by such
factors as topography, land use and other. The results of hot spot analysis shows
that the highest provision of this ES is located in the southern parts of the province as well as in the south-west, middle-east parts.
The hot spots of moderation of extreme events ecosystem service potential
aare mainly located in the north part of the province whereas the hot spots for
the fresh water provision occur in the south, mountain areas (Figure 5). This may
be explained by the topography of the region which is lat in northern side. There
are a lot of wetland which retain water in dry seasons and accumulate the excess
during wet season. Wetlands located in the closest proximity of the rivers play
the greatest role in lood prevention. Apart from wetlands, lood plains protect
the built-up areas from the natural catastrophes. The analysis of the land use,
however, reveals the housing development increasing at that sites which hinders
the ecosystem services and the bene its they bring to human well-being. In this
research we considered provision of fresh water as ecosystem service only from
the underground water sources, though it is acknowledged surface resources
also play important role.
www.eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu [01-09-2014].
G.E. Ausseil et al., op. cit., p. 37-48.
24 UK National Ecosystem Assessment, The UK National ecosystem assessment: synthesis of the
key indings, Cambridge 2011.
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Figure 3
Hot spots of global climate regulation ecosystem service potential
Fig ure 4
Hot spots of erosion control ecosystem service potential
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Fi gu re 5
Hot spots of moderation of extreme events and fresh water provision ecosystem service potential
Fi gu re 6
Hot spots of the selected ecosystem services potential and boarders
of the protected areas in Lower Silesia province
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Figure 6 presents hot spots of the selected ecosystem services potential and
boarders of the protected areas (Nature 2000, national, landscape and preservation parks). Out of 17681 polygons 712 are classi ied as hot spots. The analysis
shows that only about 12 percent of hot spots is located within national, landscape and reservation parks whereas Nature 2000 sites host about 60 percent of
all the hot spots. The greatest amount of hot spots outside protected areas occur
in the central north and north-east side of the Lower Silesia Province. These are
also topographically the lowest parts of the region. Then cold spots are concerned, about 30 percent of them is situated within boarders of protected areas.
Although cold spots are usually agricultural lands and mountain areas, places
proving medium amount and quality of the selected ecosystem services are often
of the same use.
Conclusions
The hot spot analysis over the one kilometre resolution data enable us to
identify hot spots of ecosystem services potential that are not protected. Ecosystem service hot spot is a good tool for spatial analyses which brings new perspective to the ecosystem service mapping. Mapping ecosystem services gives also
a broader perspective for protected areas’ management. If ecosystem services
are overlapping on a given area there is a high probability of ES trade-offs25. The
range of ES hotspot may vary according to spatial resolution, scale and types of
ecosystem services26.
According to Seppelt et al. (2011) the use of secondary data for ecosystem
service mapping and no results validation are more common in the research papers concerning that topic than the use of primary data and results being validated. It is, however, without a doubt that the reliable and comprehensive ecosystem
service assessments requires biophysical measurement, modelling and monitoring of ecosystem functions27. Although such assessment may be time-consuming
and cost-generating, it seems to be necessary in order to achieve reliable and
satisfactory for decision making. Nevertheless, ecosystem service mapping still
faces a lot of challenges and one of the most important of them is to set standards
on the level of detail and resolution that is acceptable for comprehensive and not
misleading maps28 for all the stakeholders.
B. Locatelli, P. Imbach, S. Wunder, Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in
Costa Rica, “Environmental Conservation” 2013 no. 41(01), p. 27-36.
26 M. Kandziora, B. Burkhard, F. Müller, Mapping provisioning ecosystem services at the local
scale using data of varying spatial and temporal resolution, “Ecosystem Services“ 2013 no. 4,
p. 47-59.
27 R. Seppelt et al., A quantitative review of ecosystem service studies: approaches, shortcomings
and the road ahead, ”Journal of Applied Ecology” 2011 no. 48(3), p. 630-636.
28 J. Hauck et al., Maps have an air of authority. Potential bene its and challenges of ecosystem
service maps at different levels of decision making, ”Ecosystem Services” 2013 no. 4, p. 25-32.
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Jakub Kronenberg • Marek Giergiczny
COSTS AND BENEFITS OF CREATING
AND MAINTAINING A STORK VILLAGE:
CASE STUDY OF KŁOPOT (CYBINKA COMMUNE)
Jakub Kronenberg, Ph. D.
Marek Giergiczny, Ph. D.
Faculty of Economics and Sociology
P.O.W. 3/5, 90-255 Lodz
KOSZTY I KORZYŚCI UTWORZENIA I DZIAŁALNOŚCI BOCIANIEJ
WIOSKI NA PRZYKŁADZIE BOCIANIEJ WSI KŁOPOT
(GMINA CYBINKA)
STRESZCZENIE: Bocianimi wsiami nazywa się miejsca kolonijnego gniazdowania bocianów białych. Takie miejsca
stanowią atrakcję turystyczną, ponieważ jest to rzadkie zjawisko. Chroni się je nie tylko ze względu na możliwości
rekreacji, ale także szereg innych kulturowych usług ekosystemów. W niniejszym artykule skoncentrowano się na
wycenie ekonomicznej bocianiej wioski Kłopot nad Odrą, ze względu na dostarczane przez nią korzyści rekreacyjne. Posługując się metodą kosztu podróży, ustaliliśmy że wartość rekreacyjna Kłopotu wyniosła w latach 20022013 odpowiednio 1 671 183 PLN lub 3 369 321 PLN – uwzględniając lub nie uwzględniając koszt alternatywny
czasu spędzonego przez turystów w podróży. Biorąc pod uwagę dodatkowe, relatywnie mniejsze korzyści uzyskiwane dzięki turystyce przez mieszkańców Kłopotu, a także – przede wszystkim – koszty utworzenia i utrzymania
bocianiej wioski pochodzące ze środków publicznych, ustalono, że społeczna korzyść netto związana z funkcjonowaniem tej wioski w latach 2002-2013 wyniosła 1 197 554 PLN lub 2 895 692 PLN, odpowiednio uwzględniając
i nie uwzględniając koszt alternatywny czasu spędzonego przez turystów w podróży.
SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: analiza kosztów i korzyści, efektywność ekonomiczna ochrony środowiska, ekonomiczna
wycena usług ekosystemów, ochrona ptaków, turystyka ornitologiczna
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Introduction
Cost–bene it analysis (CBA) is typically pursued when decision makers seek
economic rationale for the decisions they are about to make. The basic logic of
this approach is to compare the costs and bene its of a project in question, and to
carry out this project only when bene its outweigh costs. CBA is widely used in
environmental and health-care ields, where decisions are often particularly
complex and involve important trade-offs.1
Our study treats CBA as an intellectual exercise, as there are few trade-offs
involved when creating a stork village and there are other important motivations
for this decision, rather than economic rationality. Stork villages attract tourists
because of colonial nesting of white storks (Ciconia ciconia), a species of a particularly high cultural importance.2 Therefore, a decision to create a stork village
primarily depends on natural circumstances (whether there is a stork colony),
and – secondly – on the willingness of the local stakeholders to carry out conservation activities and brand this colony as a tourist attraction. Only the latter may
involve additional economic considerations that it into the CBA logic, such as the
costs of conservation activities and the related economic bene its.
The objective of this article is to test the economic ef iciency of innovative
nature protection measures, based on our case study of Kłopot, a stork village in
the Odra River valley in Cybinka Commune in the west of Poland. It is one of the
largest white stork colonies in Poland and probably also in Europe. The study
area includes ca. 50 small farms located in the river valley, an area partly used as
pastures, meadows and rarely as arable ields. The stork village “brand” was introduced to Kłopot in 2001 by the League for Nature Protection (LPN, Liga Ochrony Przyrody), a prominent Polish NGO, and investment started in 2002. Kłopot is
a unique stork village in that it hosts a White Stork Museum (opened in 2003 and
managed by the LPN), probably one of the two of its kind in the world (the other
being in Kölked village in Hungary). Adjacent to the Museum is a hostel, also run
by the LPN.
Kłopot is associated with a network of European Stork Villages coordinated
by EuroNatur (although it is not a formal member). Local authorities and inhabitants of European Stork Villages are obliged to take active measures to protect
storks, aiming “to enhance the living conditions of the white stork, such as preserving or rewilding large open wet meadows or erecting arti icial stork nests”
and to increase environmental awareness of inhabitants and visitors.3 All of these
activities translate into costs incurred by those who maintain a stork village.
Bene its related to stork villages are re lected in the broad satisfaction of
their existence and in a more utilitarian ability to visit them by individual tourR.J. Brent, Applied Cost-bene it Analysis, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA 2006.
J. Kronenberg et al., Znaczenie bociana białego Ciconia ciconia dla społeczeństwa: analiza z perspektywy koncepcji usług ekosystemów, „Chrońmy Przyrodę Ojczystą” 2013 no. 69, p. 3-27.
3 N. Wiesehomeier, G. Willinger, K. Grund, European Stork Villages: where storks are honorary
citizens, Radolfzell 2014, p. 2.
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2
ists. We approximate the latter category with the results of a travel cost valuation
study, a method which is widely used to estimate the value of sites visited for
recreational purposes. Additional bene its include the abovementioned economic opportunities related to the presence of tourists in stork villages (opportunity
to sell goods and services).
Methods
We used a single-site travel cost model (TCM), based on data from an on-site
sample of recreational birdwatchers visiting Klopot in 2011 and 2013. We used
a single visitor as our unit of observation. We estimated a negative-binomial
count-data TCM. We paid special attention to counteract potential biases introduced by on-site sampling: endogenous strati ication (over sampling frequent
visitors) and truncation (only observing visitors making at least one trip during
the season).
The surveys were carried out from April to September and questionnaires
were available to tourists in the White Stork Museum in Klopot, where local employees prompted the tourists to take part in the study. Every year about 1000
tourists visit Klopot. 119 complete questionnaires were collected in 2011 and
172 in 2013. In 2011 we used the same questionnaire to study the recreational
value of another stork village, Żywkowo, and we encourage the interested readers to read more about the questionnaire and the speci icities of the TCM that we
used in an article that reports the results of that study.4
Here, we focus on the CBA, following a standard approach of seeking the net
social bene it of a project. Both costs and bene its were calculated for 12 years:
2002-2013, i.e. ex post – since investment in the stork village was initiated until
last year. The costs and bene its are discussed from an international perspective,
taking into account that the village was also visited by foreigners and that foreign
donors provided funds for its creation and maintenance. All amounts are expressed in 2013 prices, calculated with the use of the real, risk-free interest rate
(our proxy of a social discount rate). We calculated the real, risk-free interest rate
by subtracting the core in lation rate of the National Bank of Poland from the average yields of 10yr government bonds in each year.
The TCM-estimated recreational consumer surplus constitutes the most important bene it category. The other bene its accrue to the local community as
a result of the in low of tourists. We studied them in more detail, interviewing the
more entrepreneurial inhabitants of Kłopot (shop owner, bee keeper, representatives of the LPN) about how much tourists contribute to their revenues.
Costs were calculated based on how much various external donors contributed to the establishment of the White Stork Museum and to creating the stork
M. Czajkowski et al., The economic recreational value of a white stork nesting colony. A case of
‘stork village’ in Poland, “Tourism Management” 2014 no. 40, p. 352-360.
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village “brand” for Kłopot. These grants were mainly used to ensure the presence
of the storks’ breeding colony in Kłopot (conservation expenses) and to create
the necessary infrastructure, both for storks (such as nest platforms) and for
tourists (information boards etc.).
Unlike in some other CBA projects, we did not include the opportunity costs
related to potential other land use options in the village (such as intensive agriculture). The main reason for this was that we would then also have to include
various costs (including external costs) related to such activities, making this
extension far broader than the core topic of our study.
Finally, other less tangible costs and bene its are only mentioned in passing
where we found it impossible to calculate their value in monetary terms.
Results
Recreational benefits (consumer surplus calculated with TCM)
The expected number of trips taken by visitor n is given by: λn = exp (βTCTCn)
which serves as our travel cost recreation demand function where TCn represents
individual n’s cost of reaching the site. The trip cost was de ined in two variants:
with and without the opportunity cost of time; in both cases assuming a round
trip. The average cost per kilometer was estimated at 0.45 PLN; however, when
calculating cost per person we took a travelling party size into account. The value
of time depended on visitor’s origin and was assumed to be 8 PLN/h for Polish
visitors and 16 PLN/h for foreigners (in both cases the value of time was assumed
to be equal to 1/3 of an average hourly wage rate, which is a common practice in
TCM studies). The average vehicle speed was assumed to be 60 km/h, and the
mean distance traveled was 120 km (one way), (Table 1). The estimation results
of two models are shown in Table 2 (assuming the opportunity cost of time to be
zero) and Table 3 (assuming the opportunity cost of time to be one-third of an
hourly wage). As expected, the coef icient of a trip cost was negative and statistically signi icant in both models.
In Table 4 we report welfare estimates along with sensitivity analysis over
opportunity cost of time. Using zero cost of time instead of the 1/3 wage resulted
in welfare estimates (consumer surplus associated with average respondents’
visits) that are 50% lower than when the opportunity cost of time was taken into
consideration: 186 PLN vs. 375 PLN; both welfare measures are expressed in
2013 prices. These results are very similar to those of another Polish stork village, Żywkowo in the north-east of Poland.5 As Kłopot is visited by approximately
1000 tourists per year, this gives the net annual recreational bene it of 186 000
PLN (without value of time) or 375 000 PLN (with value of time).
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Ibidem.
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Tabl e 1
Summary statistics of the basic explanatory variables
Variable
Obs
Mean
Std. Dev.
Min
Max
Visit
291
1.872852
2.032745
1
21
Km
291
119.8282
156.6736
3
768
Cost
291
47.93127
62.66944
1.2
307.2
Cost1
291
92.0312
127.6177
2.16
768
Male
291
.3436426
.4757417
0
1
Age
291
42.48797
13.96902
15
80
Source: the authors’ own elaboration.
Tabl e 2
Estimation results of the individual travel cost model excluding the opportunity cost of travel time
Std. Err.
z
P>|z|
Cost
Visit
-.0053748
Coef.
.0021756
-2.47
0.013
-.0096389
[95% Conf. Interval]
-.0011108
Cons
-20.25328
166.2862
-0.12
0.903
-346.1682
305.6617
Lnalpha
21.11985
166.2861
-304.7949
347.0346
Alpha
1.49e+09
2.47e+11
4.3e-133
5.2e+150
Truncation point: 0
Dispersion = mean
Log likelihood = -362.58645
LR chi2(2) = 8.40
Prob > chi2 = 0.0150
Pseudo R2 = 0.0114
Likelihood-ratio test of alpha=0:
chibar2(01) = 139.28
Prob>=chibar2 = 0.000
Assuming that these bene its are relatively constant over time, we can calculate the recreational value of Kłopot since tourists started to visit this place in
2003. In the irst year about 600 people came, and since 2004 the village has attracted about 1000 tourists annually. Taking into account the real, risk-free interest rate (our proxy of a social discount rate), we conclude that the total recreational value of the village has been 1 671 183 PLN not including the value of time,
and 3 369 321 PLN including the value of travel time.
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Table 3
Estimation results of the individual travel cost model including the opportunity cost of travel time
Visit
Coef.
Std. Err.
z
P>|z|
cost1
-.0026661
.001113
-2.40
0.017
-.0048476
-.0004847
cons
-21.8118
150.1269
-0.15
0.884
-316.0552
272.4316
lnalpha
22.66891
150.1266
-271.5739
316.9117
alpha
7.00e+09
1.05e+12
1.1e-118
4.3e+137
Truncation point: 0
Dispersion = mean
Log likelihood = -362.67787
LR chi2(2) = 8.21
Prob > chi2 = 0.0165
Pseudo R2 = 0.0112
Likelihood-ratio test of alpha = 0
chibar2(01) = 139.58
Prob>=chibar2 = 0.000
Table 4
Welfare estimates associated with visiting the stork village (consumer surplus per person per trip),
[PLN]
Visit
Coef.
Std. Err.
z
P>|z|
-2.47
0.013
-333.655
-38.44958
-2.40
0.017
-681.9652
-68.18096
Excluding the opportunity cost of travel time
nl_1
-186.0523
75.30889
Including the opportunity cost of travel time
nl_1
-375.0731
156.5805
Profits from tourism
The inhabitants obtained a new opportunity to earn money with the in low
of tourists, such as increased revenue of the local shop or revenues of other inhabitants who manage to sell their products or services to the LPN or directly to
tourists. Occasionally, especially during bigger events organized by the LPN, the
inhabitants could sell their produce and, in some instances, provide catering services. Assuming the average pro it margin to be 25% of the revenue, the minimum net bene its from tourism for the inhabitants of Kłopot were 23 386 PLN
over the period of 2002-2013 (2013 prices, discounted with the real, risk-free
interest rate – our proxy of a social discount rate).
Costs of creating and maintaining the stork village
As a stork village is meant to serve public purposes, most expenses related to
its creation and maintenance were paid from grants provided by various donors.
These included both large international organizations (GEF/UNDP), important
Polish funds (Regional and National Funds for Environmental Protection and Water Management), smaller organizations (Ciconia Stiftung, ProNatura), regional
and local authorities, as well as private companies and individuals. External
grants were used to fund all larger expenses related to the stork village, and often
individual donors were approached when smaller needs emerged.
Altogether the various grants amounted to 497 015 PLN (2013 prices, discounted with the real, risk-free interest rate – our proxy of a social discount rate).
Additional, current expenses were covered by the proceeds from educational
services and accommodation offered by the Museum and the hostel.
Adapting the old school building for new purposes was particularly costly in
the beginning and most costs were covered from the initial grants in 2003. Additional facilities had to be created, such as the storkwatching tower, hostel furniture, exhibits for the museum, bicycles for rental and other equipment (binoculars, computers etc.). White stork conservation activities included renovation of
nests and nest platforms. Finally, the activity of a stork village requires education
and promotion, which appeared as the annual Stork Day, youth exchange, information boards, posters, postcards etc. No costs of acquiring land were involved as
the building and the land where the White Stork Museum, the hostel and the ofice are located are owned by Cybinka commune and are leased to the LPN free of
charge.
In addition to the above costs incurred by the LPN, we were only able to identify negligible private costs incurred by one household which provided catering
services and for some time offered accommodation. Also, private costs may be
related to the fact that storks sometimes destroy (over time) roofs, either because of their heavy nests or because of their excrements. However, these problems can be prevented by proper maintenance of those nests which is included in
the costs incurred by the LPN.
Net benefit of creating and running a stork village
In light of the above estimations, we can calculate the net social bene it of
running and creating the stork village in Kłopot to be 1 197 554 PLN when using
the lower (and less realistic) TCM estimate, and 2 895 692 PLN when using the
upper (more realistic) TCM estimate. Note that these are mostly the broad public
bene its that contribute to this result, which justi ies the use of public funds for
the creation and running of the stork village.
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Based on an analogy to many other economically successful bird conservation undertakings which translated into local development opportunities,6 LPN
representatives saw similar opportunities in Kłopot. From the very beginning of
this project, they suggested that the inhabitants of the village should undertake
stork conservation activities (including the preservation of the storks’ habitat) to
attract tourists and thus generate economic bene its. Also, from the very beginning they ensured that the inhabitants have opportunities to earn money by providing catering services and selling their produce to tourists.7 Their expectations
only partly came true – there are fewer tourists and fewer income opportunities
than the LPN expected.
The monetary bene its gained directly by the inhabitants do not compensate
for the costs incurred by the LPN when establishing and maintaining the necessary infrastructure. However, these costs were paid with public funds (mostly
from institutional donors) and they well re lected the broader interests of conservation. Public bene its estimated with the TCM indicate that establishing
a stork village in Kłopot proved perfectly reasonable also in economic terms. Furthermore, white stork is a species that plays a prominent role in Polish culture8
and nature conservation has broader objectives than just making pro it.
Most environmental conservation projects are motivated by a broader – ethical and political – rationale, and our CBA only serves as an intellectual exercise.
We need to keep in mind the different limitations of this approach: CBA is a typical economic tool, based on numerous assumptions characteristic of neoclassical
economics, such as rational behavior of economic agents, ethical individualism,
and a monistic utilitarian approach. Thus, critics suggest that CBA should be developed further and “acknowledge the multiple dimensions of human well-being,
the plural forms of value articulation, the complex nature of ecosystems, the distributional biases of markets and the fairness implications of spatio-temporal
framing”9.
Indeed, our analysis revealed further, non-monetary bene its related to the
stork village status of Kłopot. These include changes in environmental awareness
of inhabitants and their positive attitude towards environmental conservation.
This is partly motivated by inancial bene its that they receive, but it is also
a broader appreciation stemming from the fact that they see people coming from
far away to see “their” storks. In terms of public bene its, this helps to shape the
identity of the village. The identity – or rather an image – of the village also helps
to raise further funds for environmental conservation or development of tourC.f. D. Molloy, p. Thomas, P. Morling, RSPB reserves and local economies, Sandy 2011.
L. Jerzak, P. Czechowski, Rozwój turystyki przyrodniczej na przykładzie bocianiej wioski Kłopot, „Prace Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu” 2009 no. 50, p. 241-245.
8 J. Kronenberg et al., op. cit.
9 G. Wegner, U. Pascual, Cost-bene it analysis in the context of ecosystem services for human
well-being: A multidisciplinary critique, “Global Environmental Change” 2011 no. 21, p. 492-504.
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ism. Also, the village is an important site of ecological education for schools in the
region.
The direct bene its related to running a stork village gained by the inhabitants can be larger, as demonstrated by an example of yet another stork village in
Poland – Pentowo – which is run and managed as a business enterprise. Indeed,
there are many opportunities to make stork villages more attractive to tourists, in
line with the concept of sustainable tourism, so that those who visit this site have
more opportunities to spend time and money there.10 Thus, the management
models of stork villages and other undertakings based on sustainable use of natural resources require further research.
This research was funded within the Polish National Science Centre grant N N112 292339. Helpful comments from Anna Bartczak are gratefully acknowledged.
10
J. Dziankowska et al., Sustainable development strategy for the stork village Kłopot, Łódź 2011.
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Adam Zydroń • Dariusz Kayzer •
Krzysztof Szoszkiewicz • Małgorzata Górna
FACTORS MODIFYING WILLINGNESS
TO INCUR EXPENSES FOR THE BENEFIT
OF THE WIELKOPOLSKI NATIONAL PARK
Adam Zydroń, Ph.D. Eng.
– Poznan University of Life Sciences
Dariusz Kayzer, Ph.D.
– Poznan University of Life Sciences
Prof. Krzysztof Szoszkiewicz, Ph.D. Eng. – Poznan University of Life Sciences
Małgorzata Górna , Ph.D. Eng.
Institute of Land Reclamation, Environmental Management and Geodesy
Piatkowska 94, 60-649 Poznan
CZYNNIKI RÓŻNICUJĄCE SKŁONNOŚĆ RESPONDENTÓW
DO PONOSZENIA KOSZTÓW NA RZECZ WIELKOPOLSKIEGO
PARKU NARODOWEGO
STRESZCZENIE: Celem niniejszej pracy było określenie inklinacji mieszkańców do ponoszenia opłat za możliwość
korzystania z Wielkopolskiego Parku Narodowego. Materiały źródłowe do realizacji postawionego problemu pozyskano podczas badań w formie wywiadu standaryzowanego, przeprowadzonego w latach 2012-2013 wśród
mieszkańców miejscowości położonych w obrębie gmin, w których zlokalizowany jest WPN oraz mieszkańców
Poznania bezpośrednio sąsiadujących z tymi gminami. W pracy zastosowano model logitowy. Z otrzymanych
rezultatów wynika, że na wielkość deklarowanej kwoty za możliwość korzystania z WPN mają wpływ następujące zmienne: wiek respondenta, poparcie wydatków ekologicznych oraz przynależność do organizacji ekologicznych.
SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: wycena dóbr środowiskowych, metoda wyceny warunkowej, metoda logitowa
Introduction
Environmental protection is focused irst of all on human needs. Its objective
is not to counteract the economic progress of the society, but to prevent and minimise negative effects of this activity. Requirements of protection of environmental value result from many reasons; however, all of them may be included in the
sustainable development policy. Due to the fact that it is in the best interest of the
society to appropriately utilise environmental resources, it is crucial to ensure
sustainability of the environment and its elements. At the same time, as a result
of an insuf icient awareness of interrelations between economy, the society and
the environment the implementation process of sustainable development has
been slow. Actions aiming at the protection of nature surrounding us following
the principle of sustainable development are multifaceted and one of its forms is
to establish surface nature conservation forms such as e.g. national parks.
The reason for the establishment of the National Park of Wielkopolska in
1957 was to protect postglacial landscapes and semi-natural forests located in
that area. Ideal conditions for recreation and leisure, as well as the immediate
vicinity of a large municipal centre have resulted in an enhanced activity of tourists and individuals interested in settling in the vicinity of the park. Anthropopressure may lead to overexploitation of the natural environment and eventually
to its degradation. Threats resulting from the recreation use of protection areas
are likely to become more serious as a result of increasing human activity and
mobility.
It is believed that environmental resources are priceless; however, since they
are limited, it is necessary to instill in the general public the awareness of their
great importance for the economy and the extensive effect on the overall quality
of life. The best method to present these interdependencies in the most convincing manner is to allocate money value to environmental resources. This process
aims not only at enhancing the public awareness, but also at estimating the value
assumed for the environment and other public goods, typically not subjected to
their market appraisal. Determination of the money value contributes to the promotion of green lifestyles, it facilitates more effective management of expenditure on environmental protection, e.g. as a result of determination of the potential environmental impact of investments on individual elements of the environment as perceived from the human point of view.
However, it still needs to be remembered that a reliable appraisal requires
in-depth knowledge and faces signi icant obstacles, resulting mainly from the
general belief that money may not fully re lect the comprehensive value of environmental goods. Moreover, we also need to consider the fact that estimation of
environmental value is developed thanks to the creation of new appraisal techniques, including additional socio-economic conditions connected with nature
conservations forms.
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The irst surveys concerning consumer preferences were conducted in the
1940’s. They concerned consumer purchases in studies conducted by the US Federal Reserve System1. The irst surveys presenting consumer preferences in relation to environmental goods were carried out by Bowen 19432, and Ciriacy –
Wantrup 19473.
In Poland the irst publications focusing on the economic value of the natural
environment concerned forested areas4. They were studies by employees of the
Forest Research Institute in Warsaw, discussing appraisal of non-economic functions of forests. Among authors investigationg this problem we need to mention
Marszałek5, Klocek6 and Gołoś7.
In turn, the contingent valuation method was applied for the irst time in
studies concerning protection of the Baltic Sea against excessive discharge of
such substances as nitrates and phosphates. Recorded results showed how much
Poles would be willing to pay to protect the Baltic and its beaches against negative effects of eutrophication8. More recent research using the contingent valuation method has concerned e.g. willingness to pay for cleaner water in rivers and
for consumer use or willingness to pay for improved protection of the Białowieża
Forest9.
The aim of this study was to determine the willingness of inhabitants to pay
fees for the use of the National Park of Wielkopolska (NPW).
The scope of study and methods
The scope of this study included an analysis of the material collected from
1400 respondents during standardised interviews and mail questionnaires.
The questionnaire consisted of three parts. In the irst part questions concerned general information on NPW (the knowledge, frequency of visits, the imF.T. Juster, Consumer buying intentions and purchase probability: an experiment in survey design, “Journal of the American Statistical Assocition” 1966 no. 61, p. 658-696.
2 H.R. Bowen, The interpretation of voting In the allocation of economic resources, “Quarterly
Journal of Economics” 1943 no. 58, p. 27-48.
3 S.V. Ciriacy–Wantrup, Capital returns from soil-conservation practice,”A Journal of Farm Economics” 1947 no. 29, p. 1181-1196.
4 A. Zydroń, K. Szoszkiewicz, Wartość środowiska a gotowość społeczeństwa do zapłacenia za to
dobro,” Annual Set The Environment Protection” 2013 no. 15, p. 2874-2886.
5 T. Marszałek, Szacowanie pozagospodarczej wartości lasów, parków narodowych i rezerwatów
przyrody, „Sylwan” 1976 no. 3, p. 33-45.
6 A. Klocek, Pozaprodukcyjne funkcje lasu – dobra publiczne gospodarki leśnej, „Sylwan” 1999 no. 11,
p. 5-20.
7 P. Gołos, Wycena wartości ekonomicznej rekreacyjnej funkcji lasu na przykładzie Leśnego Kompleksu Promocyjnego Gostynińsko-Włocławskiego, rozprawa doktorska, Warszawa 1998.
8 F.T. Juster, Consumer buying intentions and purchase probability: an experiment in survey design, “Journal of the American Statistical Assocition” 1966 no. 61, p. 658-696.
9 M. Czajkowski, Nośniki wartości dóbr środowiskowych, rozprawa doktorska, Warszawa 2008,
p. 302.
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portance of NPW for visitors, preferred forest type), while the second part comprised questions related to the willingness of respondents to incur costs for the
sake of the environment (voluntary allocation of funds for the possibility to use
the NPW value or possible compensation for a lack of such a possibility, alternatively if the respondents declared no amount they would pay, whether they would
be provide volunteer work for NPW). In turn, the third part included socio-economic characteristics of respondents (their sex, age, profession, net income per
family member, education, place of residence). Results were veri ied and in this
way questionnaires containing no answers to key questions were eliminated. Finally an ordered, veri ied matrix was prepared with answers of the respondents,
comprising results of 577 interviews. Based on the answers of the respondents
the following variables were identi ied, as described in Table 1.
Tabl e 1
Dependent variables which explain the declared amount of money for the use of NPW
Explanatory variable
Unit
Symbol
Theoretical assumption
Frequency of visits in the
National Park of Wielkopolska
0 – never, 1 – once a year, 2 – several times a year, 3 – once
a month, 4 – once a week, 5 – more frequently
x1
+
Knowledge on the National
Park of Wielkopolska
0 – practically almost none, 1 – poor, 2 – moderate, 3 – good,
4 – very good
x2
+
Willingness to work
for the sake of the National
Park of Wielkopolska
1 – 1 day, 2 – 2 days, 3 – 5 days, 4 – 7 days, 5 – more days
x3
+
Age
1 – below 18 years, 2 – 18-25 years, 3 – 26-40 years,
4 – 41-60 years, 5 – over 60 years
x4
+
Residence in terms
of population size
1 – village, 2 – town up to 20 thousand inhabitants, 3 – town
– from 21 thousand to 100 thousand, 4 – city over 100
thousand
x5
+-
Mean net income per person
1 – up to 100 PLN 2 – 100-200 PLN 3 – 200-500 PLN 4 – 500
PLN – 1000 PLN 5 – 1000-2500 PLN 6 – over 2500 PLN
x6
+-
Education
1 – elementary, 2 – vocational, 3 – secondary, 4 – higher
x7
+-
Opinion on inancial
requirements of environmental
protection
1 – moderate, 2 – I am for it, 3 – I am all for it, -1 – I am
against, -2 – I am strongly against it
x8
+
Af iliation to environmental
organisations
1 – I am not a member, 2 – I used to be a member, 3 – I am a
passive member of environmental organisations, 4 – I am an
active member of environmental organisations
x9
+
Distance from NPW
[km]
x10
-
(-) – negative effect on the the declared amount of money
(+) – positive effect on the the declared amount of money
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Logit model
When selecting explanatory variables the theoretical assumptions were as
follows: the amount of the declared fee for the possibility to use NPW will be
positively affected by: frequency of visits to the National Park of Wielkopolska,
knowledge on the National Park of Wielkopolska, willingness to offer days of volunteer work for the National Park of Wielkopolska, age, inancial requirements of
environmental protection and af iliation to environmental organisations. In turn,
a negative effect on the explanatory variable was expected in the case of distance
from NPW. Additionally it was stated that the population size of the place of residence, education and mean net income per person should not in luence the declared amount for the possibility to use NPW.
The outlined objective was analysed using the logit method10, which makes it
possible to describe dependencies between frequencies of individual variants of
the explained variable and selected explanatory variables. For the purpose of
analysis of the amount declared for the possibility to use NPW a model was constructed, in which values of the explained variable (y) were presented in the
nominal scale, i.e. 0 denotes the answer of 0 PLN, 1/7 – 10 PLN, 2/7 – 25 PLN, 3/7
– 50 PLN, 4/7 – 100 PLN, 5/7 – 200 PLN, 6/7 – 300 PLN and 7/7 – 400 PLN. It was
assumed that variation in the declared amounts for the possibility to use NPW
may be expressed by the equation:
y
EͲ Eͳ xͳ Eʹ xʹ ǤǤǤ EͳͲ xͳͲ ͳ EͲ Eͳ xͳ Eʹ xʹ ǤǤǤ EͳͲ xͳͲ (1)
where: β0, β1, …, β10 are unknown regression coef icients, which were determined using
the maximum likelihood method. In this analysis the calculations were performed using the Statistica 10.0 programme.
Characteristic of the study area
Source materials for the realisation of the presented problem were collected
in the course of standardised interviews performed in the years 2012-2013 with
inhabitants of towns located in communes, within which NPW is situated and
with the inhabitants of Poznań, neighbouring these communes. The Park is located at a distance of approx. 15 km south from the centre of Poznań (Figure 1).
NPW was established in 1957 in order to protect various forms of post-glacial
landscape and the most natural plant communities, as well as associated animal
species. At present the area of NPW is 7 584 ha, while including the protection
zone it is 14 840 ha. It is estimated that over 1 million tourists visit the National
Park of Wielkopolska annually. The Park comprises approximately 85 km hiking
trails, 100 km cycling paths and 30 km horse-riding trails.
A. Markowska, T. Żylicz, Costing an international public good: The case of the Baltic sea, “Ecological Economics” 1999 no. 30, p. 301-316.
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Fi gu re 1
Location of the study area – the National Park of Wielkopolska
Results and discussion
A logit model was constructed in order to predict the declared amount of money to be paid for the use of NPW and to indicate which of the analysed factors will
have a signi icant effect on this variable. Table 2 presents results of this modelling.
Analyses showed that the declared amount of money for the use of NPW depends on the following variables: age of respondents, their opinion on inancial
requirements of environmental protection and af iliation to environmental organisations. A positive effect on the investigated phenomenon was connected
with the age of respondents (older individuals declared higher amounts), while
a negative effect was found for the other two factors. In the case of respondents
acknowledging the necessity to allocate large amounts of money for environmental protection, the personally declared amount of money for the use of the Park
was very low. They acknowledged that environmental protection requires high
outlays, but it is not the local community using the NPW services that should be
burdened with additional costs. This may result from the fact that local communities on the one hand believe that they are interested in ecology and that nature
is a value by itself, while on the other hand they do not suffer consequences of
their actions and at the same time they feel excused from responsibility for a given problem11.
11 J. Herink, Odpowiedzialność ekologiczna a komunikacja marketingowa, “Annual Set The Environment Protection” 2013 no. 15, p. 2799-2810.
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Tab l e 2
Regression coefficients in the model describing the declared amount of money for the use of NPW
Explanatory variable
Symbol Assessed regression coefficient
Empirical level of significance
Constant
-
0.686
0.241
Frequency of visits
in the National Park of Wielkopolska
x1
-0.099
0.198
Knowledge on the National Park
of Wielkopolska
x2
-0.146
0.188
Willingness to work for the sake
of the National Park of Wielkopolska
x3
-0.023
0.723
Age
x4
0.418
< 0.001
Residence in terms of population size
x5
-0.112
0.149
Mean net income per person
x6
-0.108
0.069
Education
x7
0.157
0.132
Opinion on inancial requirements
of environmental protection
x8
-0.449
< 0.001
Af iliation to environmental
organisations
x9
-0.394
0.023
Distance from NPW
x10
-0.393
0.063
Studies conducted by Mitchell, Carson12 and Nowacki13showed that the
amount declared for the use of the environment value depend on income, education, profession, the composition of the group of visitors, demographic and psychographic factors. Moreover, this amount to a considerable extent is dependent on
the features of the attraction itself, such as quality of services and infrastructure.
When analysing the assessed regression coef icients it was stated that similar opinions were expressed by members of environmental organisations. They
also declared low amounts of money to be paid for the use of NPW. A similar
problem was investigated in their study by Królikowska, Królikowski14, who examined the introduction of fees for discharge of precipitation and snowmelt water. It was not a simple problem, as evidenced by the fact that very few municipal
sewage and utility companies decided to introduce fees for precipitation water
discharge.
R.C. Mitchell, R.R. Carson, Using surveys to value public goods: the contingent valuation method resources for the future, Washington DC 1989; N.A. Powe, K.G. Willis, op. cit.; K. Kawagoe,
N. Fukunaga, op. cit.
13 M. Nowacki, Skłonność do zapłaty a cena wstępu do atrakcji turystycznej, „Zeszyty Naukowe
Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego” 1999 no. 568, „Ekonomiczne Problemy Turystyki” no. 13.
14 J. Królikowska, A. Królikowski, Opłaty za odprowadzanie wód opadowych – potrzeby i możliwości, ”Annual Set The Environment Protection” 2013 t. 15, p. 1143-1152.
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When analysing values of empirical signi icance levels presented in Table 2
for the mean net income per family member and the distance from NPW a trend
may be observed for the negative effect on the investigated explanatory variable.
It is highly likely that willingness to support NPW decreases with an increase in
income in the general public. Similarly, we have concluded that with an increase
in the distance of the place of residence from NPW the willingness to pay for the
bene it of NPW decreases. Such conclusions were also reached as a result of other
mathematical analyses, i.e. canonical analysis of correspondence15.
In the case of other investigated sociological characteristics, such as the frequency of visits to NPW, knowledge on the National Park of Wielkopolska, willingness to offer volunteer work for NPW and education, no interdependencies
were found with the declared amount to be paid for the use of the National Park
of Wielkopolska.
Following the opinion of Czajkowski16 it may be stated that the contingent
valuation method based on responses of the interviewees, who declared their
action in a hypothetical situation, facilitates considerable lexibility and valuation
of goods, for which there is no market and which may not be appraised otherwise. This method makes it possible to assess the signi icance of individual characteristics of protected areas and verify willingness to pay for them.
Conclusions
1. The declared amount of money for the use of NPW depends positively on the
age of the respondents, while it is negatively dependent on their opinion on
the inancial requirements of environmental protection and af iliation to environmental organisations.
2. Mean net income per family member and the distance from NPW show a trend
towards a negative effect on the amount of money declared for the use of
NPW.
3. No interdependence was found between the amount of money declared for
the use of NPW and the frequency of visits to NPW by the respondents, their
education, knowledge on the National Park of Wielkopolska and their willingness to provide volunteer work for the Park.
The study was inanced from funds for science in the years 2012-2015 as research project no.
UMO-2011/03/B/HS4/06031.
A. Zydroń, K. Szoszkiewicz, Wartość środowiska a gotowość społeczeństwa do zapłacenia za
to dobro, ”Annual Set The Environment Protection” 2013 no. 15, p. 2874-2886.
16 M. Czajkowski, Nośniki wartości dóbr środowiskowych, rozprawa doktorska, Warszawa 2008.
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Ewa Rauba
LOSSES IN SURFACE WATER ECOSYSTEM
SERVICES CAUSED BY WASTE WATER
DISCHARGE
Ewa Rauba, Ph.D.
– Bialystok University of Technology
Faculty of Management
Ojca Tarasiuka 2, 16-001 Kleosin
STRATY W ŚWIADCZENIACH EKOSYSTEMÓW WÓD
POWIERZCHNIOWYCH SPOWODOWANE EMISJĄ ŚCIEKÓW
STRESZCZENIE: Zanieczyszczenia przedostające się do wód powierzchniowych powodują pogorszenie się jakości
wody oraz zaburzenia w funkcjonowaniu ekosystemów wodnych i powiązanych z nimi ekosystemów lądowych.
Skutki odczuwane są także przez ludność i gospodarkę narodową. Straty ponoszone przez ludność oraz poszczególne sektory gospodarki w związku z emisją ścieków są bardzo zróżnicowane. Na ich wielkość ma wpływ przede
wszystkim sposób wykorzystania zanieczyszczonej wody. Straty te można podzielić na dwie podstawowe grupy:
straty ponoszone przez użytkowników zanieczyszczonych wód oraz starty związane z funkcjonowaniem ekosystemów wodnych. Koszty, które muszą ponieść korzystający z zasobów wodnych, są jednocześnie stratami wynikającymi z ograniczonej możliwości świadczenia usług przez dany ekosystem wodny.
W artykule przedstawiono starty w świadczeniach ekosystemów wodnych spowodowane zrzutami ścieków oraz
sposoby ich szacowania.
SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: świadczenia ekosystemów, wody powierzchniowe, odprowadzanie ścieków, szacowanie
strat
Introduction
The natural environment is a place where humans exist. It is therefore
a source for ful illing their needs. With the development of science and technology, these needs started exceeding the basic physiological, hygienic and survival
requirements. The development of economies and consumer society caused an
increase in the requirement for natural resources. Currently, all types of ecosystems are being utilised. It can be said that the ecosystems provide a kind of a service. Due to this fact, a new concept was created, linking the natural environment
and the way of utilizing it, called the concept of ecosystem services.
Common International Classi ication of Ecosystem Services (CICES) de ines
“as the contributions that ecosystems make to human well-being. These services
are inal in that they are the outputs of ecosystems (whether natural, semi-natural or highly modi ied) that most directly affect the well-being of people. A fundamental characteristic is that they retain a connection to the underlying ecosystem
functions, processes and structures that generate them”1.
Initial works on the concept of ecosystem services and their economic value
date back to the mid-1960s and early 1970s2. Interest in this issue has increased
in the 90s3.
An important date in the development of the concept of ecosystem services
was year 1997 and the publishing of an article by Costanza, in which he presents
17 types of ecosystem services and assesses their economic value in a global scale4.
The important moment in the development of the concept of ecosystem
services was the publication in 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA),
a work involving over 1300 scientists. One of the key results of the MA was the
1 Common International Classi
ication of Ecosystem Services (CICES): Consultation on Version 4, August-December 2013, Report to the European Environment Agency, Revised January 2013, p. I.
2 R.T. King, Wildlife and man, “Conservationist” 1966 no. 20(6), p. 8-11; D.R. Helliwell, Valuation of wildlife resources, “Regional Studies” 1969 no. 3, p. 41-49; E.P. Odum, H.T. Odum, Natural areas as necessary components of man’s total environment, Transactions of the 37th North
American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, March 12-15, Washington D.C. 1972,
vol. 37, p. 178-189.
3 D.W. Pearce, Economic values and the natural world, London 1993; D. Pimentel, C. Wilson,
Economic and environmental bene its of biodiversity, “Bioscience” 1997 no. 47(11), p. 747-758;
R.S. de Groot, Functions of nature. Evaluation of nature in environmental planning, management and decision making, Groningen 1992; R.S. de Groot, Environmental functions and the
economic value of natural ecosystems, in: A.M. Jansson (ed.), Investing in Natural Capital: The
Ecological Economics Approach to Sustainability, “International Society for Ecological Economics” 1994, p. 151-168; K.E. Limburg, C. Folke, The ecology of ecosystem services: introduction to
the special issue, “Ecological Economics” 1999 no. 29, p. 179-182; M.A. Wilson, S.R. Carpenter,
Economic valuation of freshwater ecosystem services in the United States 1971-1997, “Ecological
Applications” 1999 no. 9(3), p. 772-783.
4 R. Costanza et al., The value of the world’s ecosystem services and natural capital, “Nature”
1997, p. 387-253.
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inding that globally 15 of the 24 ecosystem services investigated are in a state of
decline, and this is likely to have a large and negative impact on future human
welfare5.
Research into ecosystem services has lourished considerably since the publication of the MA, notably the ongoing Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) project which is making a compelling case for promoting conservation,
by estimating the economic bene its of ecosystems to human welfare and the
economic cost to society of ecosystem decline6. The TEEB study identi ied a set of
22 ecosystem services7.
In MEA 2005, ecosystem services are divided into four groups: provisioning
services, regulating services, supporting services and cultural services8. CICES
proposes the following classi ication: provisioning services, regulating and
maintenance, cultural services9.
As a part of a project, partially funded by the European Union, studies were
conducted which assessed the connection between ecosystems of larger areas
and their capacity and possibilities of delivering environmental services and resources. New maps have been designed for Europe, which illustrate the possibilities of ecosystems for delivering resources and services in the next 20-3010.
A very signi icant issue of the discussed concept is the economic pricing of
the environmental resources and services of the ecosystems, as well as losses in
these services, resulting from their lower quality. One of the most important ecosystems determining the life on Earth is the aquatic ecosystem. Aquatic ecosystems provide services to society, but also make it possible for many terrestrial
ecosystems to provide their own services.
The aim of this article is to present the services of surface water ecosystems
and the way in which losses in these services are shaped in connection with water resource pollution.
B. Fisher, R. Kerry Turner, P. Morling, De ining and classifying ecosystem services for decision
making, “Ecological Economics” 2009 no. 68, p. 643.
6 D. de Groot, Protecting natural capital for human wellbeing and sustainable development, Science for Environment Policy, DG Environment News Alert, Special ISSUE Ecosystem Services,
May 2010, p. 1.
7 TEEB, The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Ecological and Economic Foundation,
Earthscan, Cambridge 2010.
8 MEA, Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Current State and Trends, vol. 1, Findings of the
Condition and Trends, Working Group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Island Press
Washington, Covelo, London 2005, p. 917.
9 Common International Classi ication…, op. cit.
10 Mapping Europe’s potential to provide ecosystem goods and services, Science for Environment Policy, DG Environment News Alert, Special ISSUE Ecosystem Services, May 2010.
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Surface water ecosystems’ services
It is estimated, that wetlands occupy over 1,280 million hectares of landmass.
These areas include surface waters, such as rivers and lakes as well as swamps
and coastal waters (up to 6 m) but also anthropogenic forms such as reservoirs
and rice ields11.
The services of the surface water ecosystems can be discussed in any of the
four categories mentioned earlier (Table 1). The most important from the perspective of human existence is the provisioning function. However, the ensuring
of this service is often dependent on the regulatory function, which is the ability
of waters to self-puri ication.
Tabl e 1
Types of services of surface water ecosystems
Categories of ecosystem services
Ecosystem services
Provisioning Services
Water (quantity and quality) for consumptive use (for drinking, domestic use, and agriculture and industrial use)
Water for non-consumptive use (for generating power and transport/navigation)
Aquatic organisms for food and medicines
Regulatory Services
Maintenance of water quality (natural iltration and water treatment)
Buffering of lood lows, erosion control through water /land interactions and lood
control infrastructure
Cultural Services
Recreation (river rafting, kayaking, hiking and ishing as a sport)
Tourism (river viewing)
Existence values (personal satisfaction from free lowing rivers)
Supporting Services
Role in nutrient cycling (role in maintenance of loodplain fertility), primary production
Predator/prey relationships and ecosystem resilience
Source: Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Policy Responses, Chapter 7: Freshwater Ecosystem Services, www.unep.org [07-09-2014].
The possibility of using the services presented in table 1 by the society is
dependent on water quality. In years 2000 – 2012 the amount of industrial and
municipal sewage discharged into the waters without prior puri ication was in
constant decline (Figure 1). In 2012 the amount was equal only 48% of the sewage discharged in Poland in 2000.
In Poland in 2012 untreated waste was also disposed via the sewage system.
28 hm3 of waste was disposed of this way, which was 2.2% of all waste disposed
of via sewage network12.
However, from the perspective of losses in aquatic ecosystems, it is not only
the amount of waste that is important, but also – and most importantly – the load
MEA, Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Wetlands and Water Synthesis, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Washington D.C. 2005.
12 Ochrona Środowiska 2013, op. cit.
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Fig ure 1
Industrial and municipal sewage discharged into the waters in Poland in years 2000-2012
2500
hm3
2000
1500
2200,2
1929,4
2133,7
2097,9
2055,2
1000
500
301,3
0
2000
185,7
175,7
174
2005
2010
years
2011
144,1
2012
Source: own interpretation based on: Ochrona Środowiska 2013, Warszawa 2013.
Fig ure 2
Loads of pollutants discharged in treated waste in Poland in years 2000-2012
tys. ton/rok
160
140
BOD, 5-day
120
COD
suspension
100
total nitrogen
80
total phosphorus
60
40
20
0
2000
2005
2010
lata
2011
2012
Source: own interpretation based on: Ochrona Środowiska 2013, op. cit.
discharged together with the waste. Figure 2 presents pollutant loads from treated waste in Poland in years 2000-2012.
Waste discharged into surface waters are a mixture of municipal and industrial waste. Based on the data published in the CSO (Central Statistical Of ice)
statistical yearbooks13 we can conclude that the untreated communal waste contribute to approximately 80%, and industrial to approximately 20% of the
13
Based on average amounts in years 2000-2012 from: Ochrona Środowiska, op. cit.
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The number of measurement points for water quality in the categories of water quality in year 2012
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16
category A1 waters of the highest purity
category A2 waters of lower quality
71
category A3 the most polluted waters
water isn't fulfilling the requirements
Source: Ochrona środowiska 2013..., op. cit.
amount of waste disposed of directly into surface waters without prior treatment. The analysis of statistical data has also shown that the largest amount of
untreated waste comes from the food industry (excluding mining, which disposes mainly saline mine waters, in which the content of chlorides and sulphates is
measured). An often used index of waste pollution is the 5 days biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5). Having the general amount of waste and wanting to determine approximate pollutant load amounts for BOD5 in the waste discharged into
waters, it can be assumed that the concentration of pollutants in municipal waste
is 333mg⋅dm-3, whereas in case of industrial waste it reaches 1000 mg⋅dm-3.
While the composition of municipal waste is fairly constant, the concentration of
pollutants in industrial waste is highly varied, which is why the assumption made
above is just an approximation.
As it was mentioned before, the most analysed functions of ecosystems are
the provisional functions, the most important of which is providing drinkable
water. According to the laws in Poland and the European Union, drinking water is
examined in three categories A1, A2 and A314. The results of the analyses of water
quality in relation to the category of drinking water are presented in igure 3.
Surface waters, which are or can be used as a source of drinking water, are
divided into three categories: A1, A2 and A3. The A1 category includes waters of
the highest purity, requiring only basic physical treatment through iltration and
disinfection. The A2 category includes waters of lower quality, requiring multistage physical and chemical treatment, especially the occurrence of oxidation,
coagulation, locculation, decantation, iltration and disinfection. The A3 category
Regulation of the Minister of Environment on the day of 27 November 2002 regarding the
requirements, which should be ful illed by surface waters used for providing people with water for consumption (“Journal of Laws” No 204, item. 1728).
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includes the most polluted waters, requiring highly ef icient physical and chemical treatment15.
Disposal of waste into waters makes these water impossible to be used as
sources of drinking water or increases the cost of bene iting from such service. In
Poland, according to data of the Main Inspectorate for Environmental Protection
on the basis of the results of the National Environmental Monitoring, in 2012
only in 16 locations, out of 111 water supplies, the quality of water was that of A1
category, which meant it could be used for drinking water provisioning with no
additional cost. In 8 locations, the water did not fall into any of the mentioned
categories.
Discharge of waste into surface waters, especially those not treated or treated insuf iciently, causes losses in the possibility of utilising the water aquatic
ecosystem services. Ecosystem services and these losses can be estimated, based
on the six major economic valuation techniques when market valuations do not
adequately capture social value:
• Avoided Cost,
• Replacement Cost,
• Factor Income,
• Travel Cost,
• Hedonic Pricing,
• Contingent Valuation 16.
Monetary values for fresh water (rivers, lakes) ecosystems service are presented in table 2.
Ta b l e 2
Monetary values for fresh water (rivers, lakes) ecosystems service per biome [values in Int.$/ha/year,2007 price levels]
Ecosystem services
Provisioning services
Monetary values
food
106
water
1808
Regulating services
waste treatment
Cultural services
recreation
187
2166
Source: R. de Groot et al., Global estimates of the value of ecosystems and their services in monetary units, “Ecosystem Services” 2012
no. 1, p. 50-61.
In table 2 are presented monetary values based on The Ecosystem Service
Valuation Database (ESVD). The ESVD is a relational database, which links information on the publication, with the value estimates and the case study locations.
Ibidem.
S.C. Farber, R. Costanza, M.A. Wilson, Economic and ecological concepts for valuing ecosystem
Services, SPECIAL ISSUE: The Dynamics and Value of Ecosystem Services: Integrating Economic and Ecological Perspectives, “Ecological Economics” 2002 no. 41, p. 375-392.
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De Grot presenting valuation of fresh water ecosystems services used 665 values
from ESVD. The geographic distribution of the valuation data included in the database shows a distribution over the continents: 28% from Asia, 26% from Africa, 14% from Europe, 12% from Latin America and the Caribbean, 12% from
North America, and 8% from Oceania17.
Loss estimates in aquatic ecosystem services
Each person who bene its from the values and resources of surface water
ecosystems, perceives the losses connected with the inability or limited ability to
bene it from the ecosystem services differently. The size of these losses will vary
depending on the section of the economy utilizing the polluted water resources.
Taking this into account, the loss criterion caused by water pollution is divided
into the following groups:
• Losses resulting from providing people with water,
• Losses in industry,
• Losses in agriculture and silviculture,
• Losses in ishery economics,
• Losses in aquatic constructions,
• Losses connected with sport and leisure,
• Losses connected with widespread using of water,
• Losses resulting from the decreasing ability of waters to self-purify,
• Losses resulting from the destruction of nature and landscape18.
In order to estimate the losses in aquatic ecosystem services existing methods
of pricing environmental resources and services can be used, which include the
direct and indirect estimate methods, and calculations utilising item indicators.
One of the frequently used methods is the indicator method. This method
utilizes determined unit costs connected with additional actions related to utilizing water resources or estimates the incurred losses in relation to a natural unit
i.e. one m3 of polluted water, one kg of pollutant load. Such indicators are suggested by Miłaszewski19, Famielec20, Małecki21.
R. de Groot et al., op. cit.
A. Symonowicz, Straty wynikające z zanieczyszczenia zasobów wodnych i niewłaściwej nimi
gospodarki, in: Ekonomiczne problemy ochrony środowiska, Materiały Sesji Rady Zarządu
Głównego Ligi Ochrony Przyrody, Warszawa 1983, p. 53-56.
19 R. Miłaszewski, Pertes economiques resultant de la pollution des eaux de surface, „Ekonomia
i Środowisko” 2013 no. 2(45), p. 37; R. Miłaszewski, K. Rauba, Koszty środowiskowe spowodowane zanieczyszczeniem wód powierzchniowych, Materials from Nationwide Symposium „Hydroprezentacje IX 2006, Śląska Rada NOT-FSNT, Katowice 2006.
20 J. Famielec (ed.), Straty gospodarcze spowodowane zanieczyszczeniem środowiska naturalnego w Polsce w warunkach transformacji gospodarczej, cz. 1, Kraków 2001.
21 P. Małecki, Straty ekologiczne powodowane zasoleniem Wisły w regionie krakowskim, rozprawa doktorska, Kraków 2002.
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As mentioned earlier, an important provisioning service of aquatic ecosystems is providing people with drinking water. Due to using category A2 and A3
waters for drinking purposes, waters not ful illing the requirements of any category, units providing the service of supplying drinking water have to bear additional cost of water puri ication. These costs can be understood as losses related
to the waters’ limited ability to ful il its provisioning function. A loss would be the
cost of removing pollutants to a concentration respective to A1 category. These
losses can be determined based on unit costs of water puri ication using speci ic
methods of pollutant reduction.
Another provisioning function of aquatic ecosystems is providing us with
aquatic organisms. Fishing losses can be observed, when the quality of the water
makes it unable for ish to inhabit a certain area, or there is a decrease in the ish
mass. The loss in this service can be identi ied as loss of income based on the
difference between the amount of ish caught in good quality waters and waters
polluted by waste, in which the concentration of pollutants makes it impossible
for ish to live. Unit indicators related to such losses are described in other texts22.
The indicator method can also be used in relations to estimating the losses
resulting from a limited regulatory function of an aquatic ecosystem, which is
self-puri ication. The costs connected with the decrease in water’s ability to
self-purify are resulting from discharging additional loads of pollutants into water-dwellings and watercourses. Self-puri ication of water can only occur up to a
certain borderline amount of pollutants. The losses are therefore generated by
insuf iciently treated or completely untreated waste. In order to estimate such
losses, it can be assumed that the losses connected to the introduction of an additional load of pollutants into the surface waters corresponds to the costs required to reduce it. The average cost of removing of 1 kg of pollutant load by
a water treatment facility can be assumed as a unit loss indicator23.
Another of the ecosystem services are also the cultural services, which mainly are connected to tourism. In this case, the losses depend on the function of
a given water-dwelling or watercourse (whether it is a bathing location, or used
for sailing or recreational ishing). The losses will be resulting from the decrease
in the number of tourists using a given resource. The losses in this service can be
determined through analyzing current data In order to establish how many tourists have resigned from coming to a given water-dwelling due to its increasing
pollution and multiplying that number by the amount of money each tourist
would have spent. The losses connected with tourism will occur for example,
when the waters, due to the waste being discharged into them, cannot ful il the
conditions of bathing waters anymore. The losses can also be observed, when the
quality of water will not allow for the existence of ish, which in turn will make it
impossible for the waters to serve their recreational function i.e. ishing24.
Straty gospodarcze spowodowane…, op. cit.
E. Rauba, Metoda określania opłat za usługi wodne, rozprawa doktorska, Warszawa 2006.
24 R. Miłaszewski, Zastosowanie modeli decyzyjnych w programowaniu inwestycji ochrony wód,
„Materiały Badawcze, Seria: Gospodarka Wodna i Ochrona Wód” 1993 no. 15.
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Małgorzata Rauba
THE INFLUENCE OF THE QUALITY OF FLOWING
WATERS ON FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE LEŚNA PRAWA RIVER
Małgorzata Rauba, Ph.D.
– Bialystok University of Technology
Faculty of Forestry in Hajnowka
Pilsudskiego 8, 17-200 Hajnowka
WPŁYW JAKOŚCI WÓD PŁYNĄCYCH NA ŚWIADCZENIA
EKOSYSTEMÓW WODNYCH NA PRZYKŁADZIE RZEKI LEŚNA PRAWA
STRESZCZENIE: Ekosystemy mogą spełniać swoje funkcje pod warunkiem utrzymania odpowiedniej jakości ich
komponentów. Ekosystemy powiązane są ze sobą siecią silnych zależności i powiązań. Istotną rolę odgrywają
zwłaszcza ekosystemy wodne. Zanieczyszczenie wód powoduje zmiany nie tylko w samym zbiorniku lub cieku,
lecz także w otaczających go ekosystemach lądowych, w tym także leśnych.
W artykule zaprezentowano wpływ zmian jakości wód rzecznych na świadczenia ekosystemu wodnego na przykładzie rzeki Leśna Prawa przepływającej przez obszar Puszczy Białowieskiej. Walory przyrodnicze Puszczy Białowieskiej są niepowtarzalne. Bogactwo fauny i flory, unikatowe na skalę światową sprawia, że z jej walorów korzystają nie tylko okoliczni mieszkańcy ale także turyści z całego świata. Niewiele osób jednak zdaje sobie sprawę
z wartości świadczeń ekosystemów i z tego jak maleją wraz z postępem procesów niszczenia ekosystemów.
Świadomość ich utraty jest często niezauważana lub bagatelizowana przez lokalne władze.
W artykule przedstawiono wyniki badań jakości wód rzeki Leśna Prawa. Zła jakość wód wpływa nie tylko na
utratę korzyści płynących z usług podstawowych rzeki, ale również z kulturowych.
SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: świadczenia ekosystemów, jakość wód powierzchniowych, rzeka Leśna Prawa
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Introduction
Ecosystem services refer to the bene its which the society or economy can
obtain from the environment. The environment then becomes an important partner for the authorities on various levels regarding the decision-making process
for planned investments1. The proper management of such services should
therefore be in accordance with the rules of balanced development, achieving
mutual bene its, for the environment as well as for the economy2.
Contemporary literature divides ecosystem services into four categories:
1. Provisioning –these are all the products obtained from the environment
(food and ibres, fuel, genetic resource, biochemical substances, natural medicine and pharmaceutics, food additives, decorative materials).
2. Regulating – encompassing all the bene its obtained from regulation the processes occurring in ecosystems (maintaining proper air quality, climate regulation, water regulation, erosion control, water and sewage treatment, biological control, pollination).
3. Cultural – focusing on the non-material bene its resulting from the contact of
humans with nature such as: spiritual enrichment, re lection, recreation, aesthetic experiences.
4. Supporting – necessary for the functioning of all other elements of the ecosystem, ensuring living space for plants and animals, and also maintaining
their diversity. It differs from services in the fact that its in luence on people
is indirect and occurs in a very long period of time, whereas changes in the
other categories have a direct and short-term effect on people. An example of
such a basic service can be the production of atmospheric oxygen, or the circulation of nutrients3.
The two last services are especially important in areas of unique natural values which at the same time are a source of income to the local community. Despite the fact that the idea of ecosystem services in the world had its beginnings
in the 1960s, its use in Poland has begun quite recently. The low awareness of our
governing bodies of the cooperation of the economy, environment and society,
which is the basis for balanced development, causes not only signi icant inancial
losses, but also losses in the natural environment. One of the elements of the environment, especially sensitive to changes and pollution are aquatic ecosystems.
The main source of water pollution is human activities. Among the anthropogenic sources, the most important are: unregulated water-waste economy (point
sources), surface and groundwater runoff from agricultural areas (area sources–
1 J. Kronenberg, T. Bergier, K. Maliszewska, Usługi ekosystemów jako warunek zrównoważonego
rozwoju miast – przyroda w mieście w działaniach Fundacji Sendzimira, in: M. Kosmala (ed.),
Miasta wracają nad wodę, Toruń 2011, p. 279-285.
2 J. Kostecka, Edukacyjne znaczenie pojęcia świadczenie ekosystemów dla ochrony awifauny miast, „Inżynieria ekologiczna” 2010 no. 22, p. 34-42.
3 MEA, Ecosystems and Human Well-being, A Report of the Conceptual Framework Working
Group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2003, p. 49-70.
crop protection chemicals, animal excrement), atmospheric pollution (dry and
wet deposition)4. While it can be hard to assess the losses in the environment and
the spreading of pollutants from area and atmospheric sources, point sources are
fairly easy to locate and remove, on condition that appropriate repair systems are
planned and introduced.
The quality of the Leśna Prawa river and the ecosystem services
The values of the Białowieża Forest are known all over the world. First of all
it is the only complex of lowland forests in Europe, which has preserved its natural character. It is a refuge for many rare species of fungi, plants and animals5. The
loss of any element of this ecosystem would infringe on the biotic and abiotic
environment of the Forest. The area of the Białowieża Forest is covered by a thick
network of watercourses. One of them includes the Leśna Prawa river, which is a
right tributary of the Bug river. A large part of the Leśna Prawa river, along with
its source, lie in the territory of Poland (approx. 33 km), the remaining part (approx.30 km) lies on the Belarussian side. The river lows through the town of
Hajnówka, and further down into the area of the Białowieża Forest. The river bed
up to the border with Belarus is characterised by shallow depths (from 0.5 to 1.5
m) and widths (from 0.5 to 6 m). The municipal character of the river, the discharging of treated waste from the municipal waste treatment facility, the vicinity
of agricultural areas and its lowland character, result in an almost complete lack
of low (0.5 m3/s) and mixing of waters causing the river waters to be of low
quality.
In order to assess the in luence of water quality of the Leśna Prawa river on
the possibility of providing services by this ecosystem, studies were conducted in
2012 on water samples from 6 locations. The irst location was set outside the
town of Hajnówka to determine the in luence of a rural habitat, including the
water-waste economy. The remaining 5 locations were in the area of the Białowieża Forest. The water was analysed for concentration levels of ammonia nitrogen, nitrate nitrogen, total phosphorus and the content of dissolved oxygen. The
studies were conducted in spring: May, June, July and autumn: October, November, December.
As the research shows, the low quality of waters is mostly caused by an increased concentration of biogenic compounds–phosphorus compounds, ammonia nitrogen, and a low amount of dissolved oxygen. According to the Water
Framework Directive, the quality of surface waters in Member States of the European Union should reach a good level until 2015. The improvement needs to be
both in the chemical and ecological state. The ecological state includes the quality
A. Jarosiewicz, Proces samooczyszczania w ekosystemach rzecznych, „Słupskie Prace Biologiczne” 2007 no. 4, p. 27-41.
5 G. Rąkowski, Przyrodnicze i kulturowe walory Puszczy Białowieskiej, „Ochrona Środowiska
i Zasobów Naturalnych” 2010 no. 42, p. 276.
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of structure and functioning of the surface water ecosystems, classi ied through
analyses using biological, physiochemical and hydromorphological factors6. The
decision whether a given watercourse falls into the good, average or bad category
is based on the results of individual analyses mentioned above, the rule being
that the awarded class corresponds to the lowest result value. The classi ication
of physiochemical elements is based on assigning to each analysed indicator to a
class through comparing their characteristic values with borderline values. There
are two classes:
• class I refers to a very good condition,
• class II refers to a good condition,
• not ful illing the requirements of class II refers to a physiochemical state below good7.
River waters can potentially provide all four types of ecosystem services.
However, this is conditioned by the quality of the waters. As mentioned earlier, an
ecosystem which is too polluted has limited possibilities for potential uses.
The waters, which physiochemical parameters do not fall into any of the classes
i.e. did not reach a good condition, lose the possibility to provide the majority of
ecosystem services. The conducted analyses of the selected pollutants in the Leśna Prawa river show that the waters of this river are below a good physiochemical condition. It is especially visible in the irst measurement location outside the
town of Hajnówka, in village Sacharewo. All of the studied parameters exceeded
the values attributed to the very good and good conditions of waters (Figure 1, 2,
3). In the remaining research locations the concentration of the analysed compounds did not exceed class II of water purity, which is an indicator of the ability
of the river waters to self-purify, provided the pollution from the rural area is
eliminated. Therefore the possibilities of utilizing the waters of the Leśna Prawa
river are very limited.
One of the most important aquatic ecosystem services are the resource services. Potentially, every water course could provide such services. However, currently many surface waters cannot provide such service due to their bad quality.
The Leśna Prawa river has no drinking water intake stations. This article however assesses the potential possibility of the analysed river to ful il the drinking
water provision function.
For these ecosystems its mainly the function of providing drinking water. In
the case of surface waters used to provide people with water for consumption
there are 3 categories of usefulness, which are:
• category A1 – waters requiring only basic physical treatment through iltration and disinfection,
Dyrektywa 2000/60/WE Parlamentu Europejskiego I Rady z dnia 23 października 2000 r.
ustanawiająca ramy wspólnotowego działania w dziedzinie polityki wodnej.
7 Rozporządzenie Ministra Środowiska z dnia 9 listopada 2011 r. w sprawie sposobu klasy ikacji stanu jednolitych części wód powierzchniowych oraz środowiskowych norm jakości dla
substancji priorytetowych.
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Fi gu re 1
Concentration of ammonia nitrogen in the waters of the Leśna Prawa river
2,5
May
June
mg N-NH4+ ×dm-3
2
October
November
1,5
December
1
category I
category II
0,5
A1
A2
0
1
2
3
4
5
A3
6
Salmonid and Cyprinids
POINT SAMPLING
Source: own interpretation based on B. Mikucki „Analiza chemiczno-hydrologiczna rzeki leśnej
na przykładzie Leśnej Prawej”, Praca dyplomowa inżynierska, Hajnówka 2013.
Fi gu re 2
The concentration of nitrate nitrogen in the waters of the Leśna Prawa river
6
mg N-NO3- · dm-3
5
May
4
June
October
3
November
2
December
category I
1
category II
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
POINT SAMPLING
Source: own interpretation based on B. Mikucki „Analiza chemiczno-hydrologiczna rzeki leśnej
na przykładzie Leśnej Prawej”, Praca dyplomowa inżynierska, Hajnówka 2013.
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Fi g u re 3
The concentration of total phosphorus in the waters of the Leśna Prawa river
3
2,5
May
June
mg P·dm-3
2
October
November
1,5
December
1
category I
category II
0,5
Salmonid
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
Cyprinids
POINT SAMPLING
Source: own interpretation based on B. Mikucki Analiza chemiczno-hydrologiczna rzeki leśnej na przykładzie Leśnej
Prawej, Praca dyplomowa inżynierska, Hajnówka 2013.
•
category A2 – waters requiring typical physical and chemical treatment, especially initial oxidation, coagulation, locculation, decantation, iltration and
disinfection (chlorination),
• category A3 – waters requiring highly effective physical and chemical treatment, especially oxidation, coagulation, locculation, decantation, iltration,
adsorption on active carbon, disinfection (ozonisation, chlorination)8.
The studies of the Leśna Prawa river show that the amount of nitrate nitrogen in all analysed locations was within the A1 range (recommended 25 mg∙dm-3),
while the amount of ammonia nitrogen in most analysed locations was within the
A2 category. Meanwhile, the amount of dissolved oxygen was within the A3 category. It can be stated, that the waters of the analysed river potentially do not
meet the requirements of directly ful illing the provisioning service.
The river also does not provide appropriate environment for ish. None of the
analysed parameters of water pollution did not ful il the requirements necessary
for neither salmonidae nor cyprinidae to live in. The ecosystem of the Leśna Prawa river cannot, therefore, provide yet another provisioning service, namely the
possibility of obtaining ish resource.
Due to the nature values of the area through which the river lows, cultural
services are an extremely important element of the ecosystem services.
Rozporządzeniem Ministra Środowiska z dnia 27 listopada 2002 r. w sprawie wymagań,
jakim powinny odpowiadać wody powierzchniowe wykorzystywane do zaopatrzenia ludności w wodę przeznaczoną do spożycia (Dz.U. 2002 nr 204 poz. 1728).
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Fi gu re 4
The concentration of dissolved oxygen in the waters of the Leśna Prawa river
10
mg O2·dm-3
9
8
May
7
June
6
October
5
November
4
December
3
category I
2
category II
1
Salmonid
0
Cyprinids
1
2
3
4
5
6
POINT SAMPLING
Source: own interpretation based on B. Mikucki „Analiza chemiczno-hydrologiczna rzeki leśnej na przykładzie
Leśnej Prawej”, Praca dyplomowa inżynierska, Hajnówka 2013.
Fi gu re 5
Level of oxygen saturation of the waters of the Leśna Prawa river
100,00
90,00
80,00
May
70,00
June
%
60,00
October
50,00
November
40,00
December
30,00
20,00
A1
10,00
A2
0,00
A3
1
2
3
4
5
6
POINT SAMPLING
Source: own interpretation based on B. Mikucki „Analiza chemiczno-hydrologiczna rzeki leśnej na przykładzie
Leśnej Prawej”, Praca dyplomowa inżynierska, Hajnówka 2013.
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The Leśna Prawa River provides cultural services to the local community
based on intangible bene its like recreation, aesthetic experiences and communing with nature. A bike path Hajnówka – Orzeszkowo – Hajnówka (blue 42 km),
Nordic walking path around Sacharewo (red 11 km) and a narrow gauge railway
line run through the river valley. The loss of such service would directly affect the
village of Sacharewo especially, through which the river lows. In the time of research on water quality, the bad state of the waters could be stated even organoleptically. The water had a smell of raw sewage and lacked clarity. A survey conducted by direct interview the people of Sacharewo, clearly showed that the water quality of the Leśna Prawa river adversely affects providing cultural services.
All persons of the respondents agreed that the quality of the waters of the Leśna
Prawa River in luences on their esthetic feelings (13 persons), 10 people do not
use the waters of the river for recreational purposes (3 persons had no opinion).
Such conditions did not allow the people of Hajnówka and Sacharewo to use
the area in the vicinity of the river for recreational purposes or family leisure
time. The above mentioned tourist paths also run through the town. The bad condition of the river waters diminished the attractiveness of the area and was partly responsible for the limited ability of providing cultural services by the river.
The potential of the analysed river in the direction of such ecosystem services
cannot be fully utilised as well. The bad water quality causes the decline in the
attractiveness of the area to people wanting to admire natural landscapes, or to
ishermen. Kayak tourism or bathing are not possible either.The transboundary
nature of the river makes that loss of cultural services affect not only the people
of the Polish side, but also Belarusian. Poor water quality in terms of chemical
indicators was con irmed by Regional Inspectorate of Environmental Protection
in Białystok in pro ile Topiło near the border with Belarus. It can make the cultural bene its consisting in the use of the river for tourism purposes (kayak trail
Kamieniuki-Brześć) will be also limited.
The conducted analysis of the river’s waters show that, also in areas of high
natural values, they do not ful il the conditions which would allow to take full
bene it of the ecosystem services.
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14 dni przed terminem Walnego Zebrania” (§ 23, pkt. 3).
Spełniony został statutowy wymóg poinformowania wszystkich członków Stowarzyszenia
poprzez wysłanie w dniu 3 września 2014 roku do wszystkich członków Stowarzyszenia listu
zawierającego informacje o terminie i miejscu oraz szczegółowe propozycje programu
Walnego Zebrania Sprawozdawczo-Wyborczego w Łodzi. Dodatkowo informacja ta została
zamieszczona na stronie internetowej Stowarzyszenia.
Zgodnie z wymogiem Statutu Europejskiego Stowarzyszenia Ekonomistów Środowiska
i Zasobów Naturalnych, w połowie bieżącej kadencji odbyło Walne Zebranie Sprawozdawcze we Wrocławiu. W 2013 roku zorganizowano Walne Zebranie Sprawozdawcze w Białymstoku, stosując się do zalecenia KRS o koniczności zwoływania Walnego Zebrania corocznie.
Wybór Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu oraz Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku na
miejsce Walnego Zebrania nie był przypadkowy, zadecydowały o tym względy merytoryczne i uznanie dla osiągnięć naukowych pracowników obu uczelni oraz innych uczelni oraz
instytucji województwa dolnośląskiego i podlaskiego.
Prezentowane sprawozdanie dotyczy czteroletniej (2010-2014) działalności Zarządu,
przy szczegółowym przedstawieniu osiągnięć za okres ostatniego roku (2013/2014).
W bieżącej kadencji 2010-2014 w skład Zarządu wchodziły następujące osoby:
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dr hab. prof. AGH Leszek Preisner – przewodniczący,
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prof. dr hab. Adam Budnikowski – wiceprzewodniczący,
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prof. dr hab. Bogusław Fiedor – wiceprzewodniczący,
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dr hab., prof. UŁ Małgorzata Burchard-Dziubińska – sekretarz,
5.
dr hab. inż. Tadeusz Pindór – skarbnik,
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dr inż. Elżbieta Broniewicz,
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prof. dr hab. Kazimierz Górka,
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dr hab., prof. UEW Andrzej Graczyk,
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prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Lorek,
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prof. dr hab. inż. Rafał Miłaszewski.
W skład Komisji Rewizyjnej (2010-2014) wchodziły następujące osoby:
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prof. dr hab. inż. Ryszard Janikowski – przewodniczący,
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dr hab. inż., prof. PB Joanna Ejdys – wiceprzewodnicząca,
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dr hab., prof. USz Barbara Kryk – wiceprzewodnicząca,
dr inż. Joanna Czerna-Grygiel,
dr hab., prof. SGH Piotr Jeżowski,
dr Karol Kociszewski,
prof. dr hab. Johannes (Joost) Platje.
Najważniejszym wydarzeniem było niewątpliwie zatwierdzenie 9 lipca 2014 roku przez Sąd
Rejonowy dla Krakowa-Śródmieścia zmiany nazwy z: Europejskie Stowarzyszenie Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych na nową nazwę: Polskie Stowarzyszenie Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych oraz dokonanie odpowiedniego wpisu w Krajowym Rejestrze Sądowym w Krakowie. Bardzo dziękuję wszystkim Członkom naszego Stowarzyszenia za cierpliwość i wyrozumiałość w stosunku do długiego okresu dokonywania tych
zmian. Szczególnie dziękuję dr hab. inż. Tadeuszowi Pindórowi, poprzedniemu przewodniczącemu ESESiZN za codzienną pomoc w pokonywaniu trudności związanych z procesem
zmiany nazwy Stowarzyszenia. Obecnie obowiązującą nazwą jest Polskie Stowarzyszenie
Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych. Dokonaliśmy niezbędnych zmian w odpowiednich urzędach i instytucjach. Dokonamy kolejnych po Walnym Zebraniu Sprawozdawczo-Wyborczym w Łodzi, gdy ukonstytuuje się nowo wybrany Zarząd i Komisja Rewizyjna.
Według stanu na dzień 30 września 2014 roku Stowarzyszenie liczyło 165 członków.
W okresie sprawozdawczym, od 21 września 2010 do 12 października 2014 roku przyjęto
34 osób. W tym samym okresie decyzją Zarządu skreślono 13 członków, w tym: 7 osób na ich
prośbę, a dodatkowo ze względu na niechęć tych osób do uiszczenia zaległych wieloletnich
składek członkowskich.
Wśród Członków Stowarzyszenia nadal dominują pracownicy wyższych uczelni, z najsilniejszą reprezentacją pracowników uczelni: Warszawy (41), Krakowa (35), Białegostoku (23),
Wrocławia (22), oraz Katowic, Łodzi, Olsztyna, Opola, Bydgoszczy, Jeleniej Góry, Szczecina,
Poznania i Lublina.
W okresie objętym niniejszym sprawozdaniem Zarząd odbył łącznie trzynaście zebrań,
w tym:
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w 2010 roku – we Wrocławiu (21 września),
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w 2011 roku – w Opolu (11 kwietnia), w Białymstoku (27 czerwca) i w Krakowie (26 września),
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w 2012 roku – w Opolu (11 kwietnia), w Białymstoku (27 września) i we Wrocławiu
(5 grudnia),
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w 2013 roku – we Wrocławiu (8 grudnia 2012), w Głogowie (8 maja) i w Białowieży
(4 grudnia),
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w 2014 roku – w Łodzi (13 października).
Spełniony został tym samym wymóg Statutu, dotyczący odbywania co najmniej trzy razy
w roku zebrań Zarządu. W praktyce członkowie Zarządu spotykali się częściej, głównie przy
okazji uczestnictwa w różnych konferencjach.
Informacja o finansowej sytuacji Stowarzyszenia jest zawarta w oddzielnym sprawozdaniu
finansowym, które przedstawi dr hab. inż. Tadeusz Pindór, skarbnik PSEŚiZN.
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W kadencji 2010-2014 Stowarzyszenie rozwinęło łączność wewnętrzną i zewnętrzną,
poprzez prowadzenie strony internetowej. Strona ta posiada adres: http://home.agh.edu.
pl/~psesizn/.
Strona internetowa od sześciu lat jest administrowana przez dr inż. Mariusza Trelę, adiunkta
w Katedrze Ekonomii, Finansów i Zarządzania Środowiskiem Wydziału Zarządzania AGH
w Krakowie.
Kontynuując wspaniałe tradycje wcześniejszej działalności, Stowarzyszenie współorganizowało wiele konferencji naukowych.
2010
1. Stowarzyszenie zostało zaproszone do objęcia patronatem Seminarium Naukowego na
temat: Turystyka i rekreacja w kreowaniu lokalnej przedsiębiorczości, zorganizowanego przez Państwową Wyższą Szkołę Zawodową w Tarnobrzegu w dniu 27 maja 2010
roku w Baranowie Sandomierskim.
2. Katedra Ekonomii Ekologicznej Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu, kolejny
raz, zaproponowała Stowarzyszeniu współorganizację Konferencji Naukowej na temat:
Rozwój zrównoważony a kryzys globalny, w dniach 21-22 września 2010 roku.
2011
1. V Międzynarodową Konferencję z cyklu: Globalizacja a środowisko, zorganizowaną
przez Instytut Międzynarodowych Stosunków Gospodarczych Szkoły Głównej Handlowej w Warszawie w dniach 7-8 kwietnia 2011 roku.
2. 11th International Conference on: Current Issues of Sustainable Development – Governance and Institutional Change, zorganizowaną przez Wydział Ekonomiczny Uniwersytetu Opolskiego w dniach 10-12 kwietnia 2011 roku.
3. VIII Międzynarodową Konferencję Naukową z cyklu: Uwarunkowania i mechanizmy
zrównoważonego rozwoju i gospodarki opartej na wiedzy, zorganizowaną przez
Katedrę Zrównoważonego Rozwoju i Gospodarki Opartej na Wiedzy Wyższej Szkoły
Ekonomicznej w Białymstoku w dniach 27-29 czerwca 2011 roku.
4. Konferencję Naukową na temat: Badania naukowe i działalność dydaktyczna w zakresie
ekonomii środowiska i zasobów naturalnych, połączoną z Pierwszym Zjazdem Katedr
i Zakładów prowadzących badania naukowe i dydaktykę w zakresie ekonomii środowiska i zrównoważonego rozwoju, zorganizowane przez Katedrę Ekonomii, Finansów
i Zarządzania Środowiskiem Wydziału Zarządzania Akademii Górniczo-Hutniczej
w Krakowie w dniu 26 września 2011 roku.
2012
1. W dniach 18-20 marca 2012 roku Stowarzyszenie współorganizowało z Wydziałem Ekonomicznym Uniwersytetu Opolskiego 12th International Conference on: Current Issues
of Sustainable Development – Governance and Institutional Change.
2. W okresie 4-6 czerwca 2012 roku Stowarzyszenie objęło patronat nad II Konferencją
Naukową na temat: Trendy i wyzwania zrównoważonego rozwoju w XXI wieku, zorganizowaną przez Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych i Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego.
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W dniach 11-12 października 2012 roku w Supraślu obchodzono Jubileusz XX-lecia Fundacji Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych, organizacyjnie połączony
z konferencją na temat: Ekonomia i środowisko – przyszłość teorii i badań na bazie
20-letnich doświadczeń. W czasie Konferencji prof. Leszek Preisner zaprezentował dorobek dwudziestoletniej działalności naszego Stowarzyszenia. Tekst wystąpienia został
opublikowany w czasopiśmie „Ekonomia i Środowisko”, nr 3(43)2012.
W dniach 6-7 grudnia 2012 roku Katedra Ekonomii Ekologicznej Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu zaprosiła Stowarzyszenie do współorganizacji Konferencji
Naukowej na temat: Zasobooszczędne gospodarowanie.
2013
1. Konferencję Naukową na temat: Trendy, wyzwania i dylematy zrównoważonego
rozwoju współorganizowaną w Międzyzdrojach 27-29 maja 2013 roku z Wydziałem
Nauk Ekonomicznych i Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego.
2. II Seminarium Sekcji Ekonomiki Użytkowania i Ochrony Wód ESEŚiZN na temat: Ekonomiczne problemy gospodarki wodnej, współorganizowane z Państwową Wyższą Szkołą
Zawodową w Głogowie w dniach 8-9 maja 2013 roku.
3. W dniu 15 listopada 2013 roku Leszek Preisner uczestniczył w uroczystej Gali Finałowej
Konkursu Eko-liderzy 20-lecia Wojewódzkiego Funduszu Ochrony Środowiska i Gospodarki Wodnej w Krakowie.
2014
1. Stowarzyszenie zostało zaproszone jak partner III Ogólnopolskiej Konferencji Naukowej
EkoServ na temat: Świadczenia ekosystemów jako przedmiot badań transdyscyplinarnych, organizowanej przez Zakład Geografii Kompleksowej, Uniwersytet im. Adama
Mickiewicza w Poznaniu.
2. W dniach 13-15 października 2014 roku, odbędzie się konferencja naukowa na temat:
Środowisko przyrodnicze a rozwój, współorganizowana ze Stowarzyszeniem przez
prof. Małgorzatę Burchard-Dziubińską z Wydziału Ekonomiczno-Socjologicznego
Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, w trakcie której zorganizowane zostanie Walne Zebranie Sprawozdawczo-Wyborczym Polskiego Stowarzyszenia Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów
Naturalnych.
Do innych form aktywności członków Stowarzyszenia zaliczyć niewątpliwie należy:
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wyrażanie przez członków Stowarzyszenia opinii w ważnych kwestiach dotyczących
wdrażania w Polsce zasad rozwoju zrównoważonego i trwałego,
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udział członków Stowarzyszenia w organach doradczych i opiniotwórczych,
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opracowanie ekspertyz dotyczących ochrony środowiska.
Stowarzyszenie, w ramach współpracy z Fundacją Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów
Naturalnych w Białymstoku, zaangażowane jest w działalność wydawniczą, realizowaną
w trzech formach, a mianowicie:
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Biblioteka „Ekonomia i Środowisko”, której problematyka skupiona jest na wydawaniu
materiałów konferencyjnych, a jej redaktorem jest prof. dr hab. Kazimierz Górka – łącznie wydano 35 zeszyty.
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Czasopismo (kwartalnik) Stowarzyszenia Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych pod nazwą „Ekonomia i Środowisko”, którego redaktorem naczelnym jest dr inż.
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Elżbieta Broniewicz – wydano 49 zeszytów, z tego 12 w okresie sprawozdawczym.
Aktualnie tytuł ten ma przyznane 8 punktów na liście czasopism Ministerstwa Nauki
i Szkolnictwa Wyższego.
Książki i inne materiały, publikowane przez Wydawnictwo Ekonomia i Środowisko, prowadzone przez Fundację Stowarzyszenia Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych w Białymstoku. Informacja o działalności Fundacji zawarta jest w oddzielnym
sprawozdaniu.
Nadal niewielu członków naszego Stowarzyszenia jest równocześnie członkami EAERE.
W czerwcu 2014 roku w Stambule odbył się piąty Kongres AERE i EAERE.
Kolejna 21th Annual Conference EAERE zorganizowana będzie w dniach 24-27 czerwca 2015
roku w Helsinkach, a następna 22nd Annual Conference EAERE w Zurichu. Szczegółowe informacje na stronie www.eaere.org.
Decyzją Zarządu z dnia 4 października 2007 roku, powołano – w ramach Stowarzyszenia –
Sekcję Ekonomiki Użytkowania i Ochrony Wód. Funkcję przewodniczącego tej Sekcji Zarząd
powierzył prof. dr hab. inż. Rafałowi Miłaszewskiemu, który przedstawi sprawozdanie z działalności Sekcji.
W 2011 roku obchodziliśmy skromnie jubileusz 20-lecia Europejskiego Stowarzyszenia Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych. Działalność i osiągnięcia naszego Stowarzyszenia zostały przedstawione przez przewodniczącego Leszka Preisnera w czasopiśmie
„Ekonomia i Środowiska”, nr 2(43)2012, s. 226-235.
W 2016 roku Polskie Stowarzyszenie Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych
będzie obchodziło jubileusz 25-lecia działalności, do którego przygotujemy się z należytą
starannością.
W imieniu Zarządu
Leszek Preisner
Przewodniczący PSEŚiZN
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w zakresie polityki finansowej w kadencji: 21 września 2010 roku – 13 października 2014 roku
W kadencji 2010-2014 Zarząd podejmował przedsięwzięcia, których finansowanie uwarunkowane było wysokością dochodów własnych oraz dotychczas zgromadzonych rezerw.
W połowie bieżącej kadencji, w trakcie XII Walnego Zgromadzenia Sprawozdawczego zaakceptowane zostało sprawozdanie finansowe dotyczące okresu: 21 września 2010 roku do
5 grudnia 2012 roku.
Podobnie jak w latach poprzednich, najbardziej aktywni Członkowie Stowarzyszenia starali
się powiązać badania naukowe, organizację konferencji i częściowo działalność wydawniczą
z uczelniami, w których pracują, przenosząc na te instytucje znaczną część kosztów.
Przychody Stowarzyszenia stanowiły zasadniczo składki członkowskie. Stowarzyszenie nie
otrzymuje żadnych dotacji oraz nie prowadzi działalności gospodarczej. Odsetki z lokat
bankowych i dywidenda od akcji BOŚ przyniosły symboliczne wpływy.
Jedyne pozycje wydatków Stowarzyszenia stanowiły koszty księgowości oraz sekretariatu.
Wszystkie funkcje z wyboru są wykonywane społecznie. Koszty administracyjne działalności
Stowarzyszenia pokryła Katedra Ekonomii, Finansów i Zarządzania Środowiskiem Wydziału
Zarządzania AGH.
Podstawowym źródłem przychodów Stowarzyszenia są składki członkowskie i odsetki od
lokat bankowych. W latach 2010-2013, wysokość rocznej składki członkowskiej pozostawała
na poziomie: 40 zł dla osób z tytułem magistra i doktora, a 60 zł dla osób z tytułem co najmniej doktora habilitowanego.
Od 2014 roku wysokość składki członkowskiej wynosi: 50 zł dla osób do stopnia doktora
włącznie, a 80 zł dla osób z tytułem co najmniej doktora habilitowanego.
Wydatki Stowarzyszenia, w okresie sprawozdawczym, przedstawiają się następująco:
– wynagrodzenie za prowadzenie sekretariatu w wysokości 1.600,00 zł rocznie,
– wynagrodzenie za prowadzenie księgowości w wysokości 1.600,00 zł rocznie; na wniosek dr Kazimiery Mendys, kwota ta została obniżona od 2012 roku do 500 zł rocznie.
Wykonując uchwałę Zarządu przewodniczący oraz skarbnik dokonali rozeznania warunków
prowadzenia rachunku bieżącego w innych bankach i przedstawili Zarządowi propozycję
przeniesienia rachunku z BOŚ do Banku Pekao SA. W wyniku zmiany banku nastąpiło obniżenie wysokości opłat i prowizji ponoszonych wcześniej w BOŚ SA; zmniejszyły się odpowiednio: prowizja od wypłaty gotówkowej do 5 zł, prowizja od przelewu (ZUS, US) do 15 zł.
Decyzja o przeniesieniu rachunku Stowarzyszenia do Pekao SA spowodowała możliwość
uzyskania dostępu elektronicznego do konta, co nie pociąga za sobą żadnych kosztów.
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Sytuację finansową Stowarzyszenia w minionej kadencji przedstawiono w tabeli 1.
Jak wynika z danych zamieszczonych w tabeli 1, wielkość zasobów Stowarzyszenia wzrosła,
mimo istotnej aprecjacji kursu złotego polskiego do dolara amerykańskiego w analizowanym okresie.
W posiadaniu Stowarzyszenia znajduje się 270 założycielskich akcji BOŚ, będących poza obrotem giełdowym, zdeponowanych w Biurze Maklerskim Banku Pekao SA w Warszawie.
Na podstawie powyższych informacji ogólną sytuację finansową Stowarzyszenia ocenić
można jako dobrą.
Tabela 1: BILANS Polskiego Stowarzyszenia Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych
na dzień 30 listopada 2012, 30 listopada 2013 oraz 31 sierpnia 2014
2012
2013
2014
29 396,44
27 077,07
26 682,87
2 760,00
2 760,00
2 760,00
26 636,44
24 313,07
23 922,87
22 000,00
25 000,00
25 000,00
4 007,70
5 177,89
9 911,57
177,63
477,63
702,38
55 581,77
57 732,59
62 296,82
Fundusze własne [PLN]
55 581,77
57 732,59
62 296,82
I. Fundusz statutowy
54 729,44
56 928,40
58 167,64
852,33
804,19
4 129,18
0,0
0,0
0,0
55 581,77
57 732,59
62 296,82
AKTYWA
Aktywa trwałe [PLN]
IV. Inwestycje długoterminowe
- akcje BOŚ
- lokata w USD
Aktywa obrotowe
III. Inwestycje krótkoterminowe
- lokata krótkoterminowa
- rachunek bieżący
- kasa
AKTYWA RAZEM
PASYWA
II. Wynik finasowy
Zobowiązania
PASYWA RAZEM
Tadeusz Pindór
Skarbnik PSEŚiZN
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Sprawozdanie Komisji Rewizyjnej sporządzone na Walne Zebranie Sprawozdawczo-Wyborcze
Łódź, dnia 13 października 2014 roku
Przedmiotem sprawozdania jest ocena działalności Zarządu Europejskiego Stowarzyszenia
Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych w okresie: od 21 września 2010 roku –
13 października 2014 roku, w zakresie realizacji zadań statutowych oraz prowadzonej
gospodarki finansowej. Należy dodać, w dniu 9 lipca 2014 roku nastąpiła zmiana nazwy
Stowarzyszenia na nową: Polskie Stowarzyszenie Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów
Naturalnych, zatwierdzoną przez Sąd Rejonowy dla Krakowa-Śródmieścia.
Komisja Rewizyjna, powołana na Walnym Zebraniu Sprawozdawczo-Wyborczym ESEŚiZN
we Wrocławiu w dniu 20 września 2010 roku, działała w kadencji 2010-2014 w składzie:
1. prof. dr hab. inż. Ryszard Janikowski – przewodniczący
2. dr hab. inż., prof. PB Joanna Ejdys – wiceprzewodnicząca
3. dr hab., prof. USz Barbara Kryk – wiceprzewodnicząca
4. dr inż. Joanna Czerna-Grygiel
5. dr hab., prof. SGH Piotr Jeżowski
6. dr Karol Kociszewski
7. prof. dr Johannes (Joost) Platje
Ocena realizacji zadań statutowych Stowarzyszenia
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Zgodnie z uchwałą X Walnego Zebrania Sprawozdawczo-Wyborczego we Wrocławiu,
dotyczącą zmian statutowych, Zarząd Stowarzyszenia złożył wniosek do Krajowego
Rejestru Sądowego. W długo trwającej procedurze Sąd Rejonowy w Krakowie zatwierdził wszystkie zmiany wniesione we wniosku, w tym zmianą nazwy Stowarzyszenia.
Komisja Rewizyjna uznała, że Przewodniczący i Zarząd podjęli odpowiednie działania
dla realizacji uchwały dotyczącej zmian statutowych, podjętych w trakcie Walnych
Zebrań bieżącej kadencji w 2010 i 2012 roku.
Komisja Rewizyjna oceniła, iż Zarząd Europejskiego Stowarzyszenia Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych spełnił formalny wymóg statutowy dotyczący zwołania Walnego Zebrania w połowie kadencji, które odbyło się we Wrocławiu 5 grudnia
2012 roku. Zarząd zwołał dodatkowe Walne Zebranie w dniu 4 grudnia 2013 roku w Białowieży. O organizacji Walnego Zebrania w dniu 13 października 2014 roku poinformował członków Stowarzyszenia zgodnie z wymogami, określonymi w obowiązującym od
9 lipca 2014 roku Statucie Polskiego Stowarzyszenia Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych.
Komisja Rewizyjna oceniła, iż Zarząd Polskiego (wcześniej Europejskiego) Stowarzyszenia Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych spełnił formalny wymóg statutowy, dotyczący odbywania co najmniej trzech spotkań w ciągu roku. W okresie objętym
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sprawozdaniem odbyło się łącznie jedenaście zebrań Zarządu, z tego jedno w 2010
roku, po trzy w latach 2011, 2012 i 2013 oraz jedno zebranie w 2014 roku.
Komisja Rewizyjna oceniła, iż Zarząd prowadził aktywną politykę pozyskiwania nowych
członków, skreślania tych, którzy nie spełniają obowiązków (głównie brak wnoszenia
składek członkowskich). Ponadto Zarząd podejmował działania na rzecz zainteresowania nowych ośrodków naukowych działalnością Stowarzyszenia. Według stanu na dzień
30 września 2014 roku Stowarzyszenie liczyło 165 członków. W okresie sprawozdawczym do Stowarzyszenia przystąpiło 37 nowych członków, a skreślono 13 członków,
w tym: 7 osób na ich prośbę, a dodatkowo ze względu na niechęć tych osób do uiszczenia zaległych, wieloletnich składek członkowskich. Komisja Rewizyjna pozytywnie ocenia działania Zarządu zmierzające do dyscyplinowania członków Stowarzyszenia w zakresie wywiązywania się z obowiązków statutowych i rekomenduje prowadzenie takiej
polityki w przyszłych latach.
Stowarzyszenie aktywnie uczestniczyło w procesie kształtowania i wdrażania polityki
środowiskowej między innymi poprzez uczestnictwo członków Stowarzyszenia w pracach różnych instytucji i organów władzy oraz poprzez udział w projektach badawczych.
W okresie sprawozdawczym Stowarzyszenie było współorganizatorem 15 konferencji.
Konferencje organizowane były wspólnie z uczelniami, w których zatrudnieni są członkowie Stowarzyszenia.
Komisja Rewizyjna podkreśla duże znaczenie tych konferencji dla rozwoju ekonomii
środowiskowej i polityki ekologicznej w Polsce oraz integracji ekonomistów środowiska
i zasobów naturalnych pracujących w różnych uczelniach i instytucjach w Polsce.
Komisja Rewizyjna pozytywnie oceniła działalność publicystyczną i wydawniczą Stowarzyszenia w okresie sprawozdawczym, opartą na wydaniu szeregu publikacji.
Komisja Rewizyjna uznała, że powołana w ramach Stowarzyszenia, Sekcja Ekonomiki
Użytkowania i Ochrony Wód funkcjonuje właściwie.
Ocena gospodarki finansowej Stowarzyszenia
1. Kierunki działalności finansowej dochodów i wydatków Stowarzyszenia w okresie sprawozdawczym Komisja Rewizyjna uznała za prawidłowe, to jest zgodne z uchwałami
Zarządu i statutowymi celami Stowarzyszenia. Lata 2010, 2011 i 2012 zamknęły się dodatnim wynikiem finansowym. Zdyscyplinowanie w 2010 roku członków do uiszczenia
zaległych i bieżących składek skutkowało istotnym wzrostem przychodów, szczególnie
w 2011 roku. Miało to istotny wpływ na wynik finansowy 2011 roku, który był znacznie
wyższy niż w roku poprzednim i następnym. W 2011 roku wynik finansowy był wysoki
również ze względu na wyższe odsetki od dokonanych lokat terminowych i niższe prowizje bankowe, co wiązało się ze zmianą banku prowadzącego rachunek Stowarzyszenia z BOŚ na Bank Pekao SA.
2. Głównym źródłem dochodów Stowarzyszenia są składki członkowskie. Komisja uznaje
za właściwą decyzję Zarządu o zwiększeniu składki członkowskiej z poziomu 40 i 60 zł
do poziomu 50 i 80 zł.
3. Zarząd słusznie rozważa możliwości sprzedaży akcji Banku Ochrony Środowiska S.A.,
zdeponowanych w Biurze Maklerskim w Warszawie a pozostających poza obrotem gieł-
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dowym. Komisja Rewizyjna zasugerowała Zarządowi rozważenie możliwości poprawy
gospodarki finansowej Stowarzyszenia poprzez usprawnienie strategii lokowania środków finansowych, a także rozważenia decyzji o sprzedaży akcji BOŚ S.A.
Komisja Rewizyjna wysoko oceniła sposób prowadzenia sekretariatu, dokumentacji finansowej oraz niezbędnej sprawozdawczości. Komisja wysoko oceniła także działania
Zarządu, których efektem są niskie koszty obsługi administracyjnej Stowarzyszenia.
Z przedstawionych wyżej względów Komisja Rewizyjna uznała, że praca Zarządu Polskiego
(wcześniej Europejskiego) Stowarzyszenia Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych jest zgodna z normami prawnymi oraz zasadami rzetelnej gospodarki finansowej Stowarzyszenia. Zarząd Stowarzyszenia dostosowuje ponoszenie wydatków do wielkości przychodów.
Stowarzyszenie nie ma żadnych zobowiązań finansowych.
Księgi są prowadzone rzetelnie i prawidłowo dokumentują gospodarkę finansową, w tym
wynik finansowy Stowarzyszenia.
Z przedstawionej oceny działalności merytorycznej i finansowej wynika, że Zarząd prawidłowo realizował zadania statutowe Stowarzyszenia, a także wnioski i zalecenia Komisji Rewizyjnej, przekazywane przez przewodniczącego Komisji na posiedzeniach Zarządu.
Komisja Rewizyjna sugeruje podjęcie przez Zarząd działań na rzecz usprawnienia mechanizmów egzekwowania składek.
Komisja Rewizyjna wnioskuje do Walnego Zebrania Sprawozdawczo-Wyborczego Polskiego
(wcześniej Europejskiego) Stowarzyszenia Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych o udzielenie Zarządowi Stowarzyszenia absolutorium za działalność w kadencji 20102014.
prof. dr hab. inż. Ryszard Janikowski
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W pierwszym terminie (godz. 18:00) zwołania Walnego Zebrania przewodniczący Stowarzyszenia prof. Leszek Preisner stwierdził brak quorum, więc Zebranie rozpoczęto o godz.
18:15 gdyż, zgodnie ze Statutem Stowarzyszenia, w drugim terminie nie obowiązuje wymóg quorum. Stwierdzono obecność 42 członków Polskiego Stowarzyszenia Ekonomistów
Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych (PSEŚiZN). Lista obecności stanowi załącznik do protokołu.
Walne Zebranie otworzył przewodniczący Stowarzyszenia prof. Leszek Preisner, przedstawiając proponowany porządek obrad:
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sprawozdanie Zarządu Stowarzyszenia (prof. L. Preisner, dr hab. T. Pindór),
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sprawozdanie z działalności Sekcji Ekonomiki Użytkowania i Ochrony Wód (prof. R. Miłaszewski),
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Prof. L. Preisner zaproponował kandydatów na przewodniczącego oraz sekretarza
obrad, odpowiednio: dr. inż. Mariusza Trelę, dr Paulinę Szyja. Zebrani wyrazili zgodę na głosowanie w trybie jawnym przez podniesienie ręki. Wymienione osoby zostały jednomyślnie
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Przewodniczący dr inż. M. Trela poddał pod głosowanie zaproponowany przez prof. Leszka
Preisnera program obrad Walnego Zebrania Stowarzyszenia, pytając uprzednio o propozycje zmian przebiegu zebrania. W wyniku braku zgłoszeń, jednomyślnie przyjęto przebieg
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Przewodniczący Walnego Zebrania dr inż. M. Trela ogłosił przystąpienie do wyboru składu
Komisji Skrutacyjnej.
Kandydatów zgłosili:
Prof. Małgorzata Burchard-Dziubińska – dr Annę Dubel,
Prof. Marta Gollinger-Tarajko – dr Krzysztofa Posłusznego.
Prof. L. Preisner zgłosił wniosek formalny, aby poszczególne kandydatury poddano
odrębnej procedurze głosowania. Dr M. Trela, przewodniczący Walnego Zebrania, zapytał
zgromadzonych o wyrażenie zgody na jawna formę głosowania. Obecni wyrazili zgodę.
Przewodniczący zapytał kandydatów o zgodę na udział w wyborach. Kandydaci wyrazili
zgodę.
Jednomyślnie wybrano dr inż. Annę Dubel oraz dr inż. Krzysztofa Posłusznego na członków Komisji Skrutacyjnej. Poszczególne sprawozdania zamieszczono na: www.sprawozdaniaopp.mpips.gov.pl. W tym samym punkcie obrad przewodniczący dr inż. M. Trela ogłosił
wybory na członków Komisji Matki. Propozycje kandydatów zgłosili:
– Prof. Małgorzata Burchard-Dziubińska – prof. Mariusza Plicha,
– Prof. Tadeusz Pindór – prof. Martę Gollinger-Tarajko.
Przewodniczący zapytał kandydatów o zgodę na udział w wyborach. Kandydaci wyrazili wolę kandydowania.
Przewodniczący Zebrania zapytał zgromadzonych o wyrażenie zgody na jawną formę
głosowania. Obecni wyrazili zgodę. Następnie jednomyślnie wybrano wskazanych kandydatów na członków Komisji Matki.
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Przewodniczący dr inż. M. Trela przystąpił do wyboru Komisji do spraw Uchwał i Wniosków.
Propozycje kandydatów zgłosili:
Prof. Tadeusz Pindór – prof. Kazimierza Górkę i prof. Adama Budnikowskiego,
Prof. Piotr Małecki – dr Ksymenę Rosiek.
Przewodniczący zapytał kandydatów o zgodę na udział w wyborach. Kandydaci wyrazili wolę kandydowania. Przewodniczący zapytał zgromadzonych o wyrażenie zgody na jawną formę głosowania. Obecni wyrazili zgodę. Następnie jednomyślnie wybrano wskazanych
kandydatów na członków Komisji do spraw Uchwał i Wniosków.
Kolejnym punktem obrad miał być wybór składu członków Komisji do spraw Odwołań.
Jednak na wniosek przewodniczącego Komisji Rewizyjnej prof. Ryszarda Janikowskiego,
który zgłosił bezzasadność jej wyboru z uwagi na brak jakichkolwiek odwołań. Uczestnicy
Walnego Zebrania wyrazili poparcie wniosku.
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Następnie przewodniczący Zebrania poprosił prof. Leszka Preisnera – przewodniczącego
PSEŚiZN o przedstawienie raportu z działalności Zarządu oraz prof. Tadeusza Pindóra
o zaprezentowanie sprawozdania z działalności finansowej.
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Prof. L. Preisner zaprezentował działania Zarządu od 21 września 2010 roku do 13 października
2014 roku, podkreślając iż z uwagi na przedstawienie 5 grudnia 2012 roku w trakcie Walnego Zebrania Sprawozdawczego (połowa kadencji) oraz 4 grudnia 2013 roku w trakcie Walnego Zebrania w Białowieży sprawozdania z kolejnego 2013 roku, prezentowane sprawozdanie nawiązuje do poprzednich, zaakceptowanych już wcześniej przez wspomniane Walne
Zebrania. Natomiast szczegółowo zostały przedstawione przedsięwzięcia podjęte przez
Zarząd i Stowarzyszenie od 5 grudnia 2013 do 13 października 2014 roku.
Przewodniczący przedstawił 10-osobowy skład Zarządu w kadencji 2010-2014:
przewodniczący – prof. L. Preisner,
wiceprzewodniczący – prof. A. Budnikowski, prof. B. Fiedor,
skarbnik – prof. T. Pindór,
członkowie – dr E. Broniewicz, prof. M. Burchard-Dziubińska, prof. K. Górka, prof. A. Graczyk, prof. Elżbieta Lorek, prof. R. Miłaszewski.
Przewodniczący przedstawił także skład Komisji Rewizyjnej w kadencji 2010-2014:
przewodniczący – prof. Ryszard Janikowski,
wiceprzewodniczące – prof. Joanna Ejdys, dr hab. prof. Barbara Kryk
członkowie – dr inż. Joanna Czerna-Grygiel, prof. Piotr Jeżowski, dr Karol Kociszewski,
prof. Johannes (Joost) Platje.
Następnie przewodniczący poinformował o najważniejszej zmianie, jaka nastąpiła w związku z formalnym funkcjonowaniem Stowarzyszenia. Sąd Rejonowy w Krakowie 9 lipca 2014
roku wpisał do KRS nową nazwę Stowarzyszenia: Polskie Stowarzyszenie Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych, zastępując tym samym dotychczasową, Europejskie Stowarzyszenie Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych. Przewodniczący Zarządu
podziękował członkom Stowarzyszenia za cierpliwość w oczekiwaniu na zmianę nazwy,
a szczególnie prof. Tadeuszowi Pindórowi za pomoc w przeprowadzeniu procedury. Ponadto, prof. L. Preisner poinformował o dokonaniu wymaganej zmiany nazwy Stowarzyszenia
we wszystkich instytucjach, w których jest to niezbędne, z wyjątkiem Banku Pekao S.A. prowadzącego rachunek Stowarzyszenia. Przewodniczący PSEŚiZN zaproponował, aby zmiany
w tym ostatnim zakresie dokonał nowy skład Zarządu, którego wybór miał nastąpić 13 października 2014 roku, legitymizując się wyborem na nową kadencję.
Prof. L. Preisnera poinformował, że liczba członków Stowarzyszenia na 30 września 2014
roku wynosiła 165 osób. Od 21 września 2010 do 13 października 2014 roku przyjęto 34 osoby, a skreślono z listy 13 osób, w tym 7 na ich osobistą prośbę. Prof. L. Preisner podkreślił,
że wśród członków dominują pracownicy naukowi ośrodków akademickich z Warszawy
(41), Krakowa (35 osób), Białegostoku (23 osoby) i Wrocławia (22 osoby).
Następnie przedstawił informację o zebraniach Zarządu odbytych w kadencji 2010-2014.
Jednocześnie przewodniczący zaproponował, aby po zakończeniu obrad Walnego Zebrania, nowo wybrany Zarząd odbył swoje pierwsze zebranie.
Ponadto, Prof. L. Preisner przypomniał o rozwijaniu komunikacji wewnętrznej i zewnętrznej
przez Stowarzyszenie za pośrednictwem strony internetowej, a także korespondencji mailowej i tradycyjnej. Następnie Przewodniczący przybliżył zebranym zakres inicjatyw i działań
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Demianowiczowi za współpracę PSEŚiZN oraz kierowanej przez niego Fundacji Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych oraz dr inż. Elżbiecie Broniewicz, redaktorowi naczelnemu czasopisma „Ekonomia i Środowisko”.
Prof. L. Preisner podkreślił znaczenie udziału członków PSEŚiZN w European Association of
Environemental and Resource Economics i wyraził żal, że obecnie jest niewiele osób decydujących się na członkostwo w EAERE. Przewodniczący poinformował o zbliżającym się
jubileuszu 25-lecia działalności Stowarzyszenia, który przypadnie w 2016 roku i o konieczności podjęcia odpowiednich przygotowań w tym zakresie.
Następnie prof. Tadeusz Pindór, skarbnik Stowarzyszenia, przedstawił sprawozdanie dotyczące sytuacji finansowej Stowarzyszenia (dokument stanowi załącznik do raportu), precyzując źródła przychodów oraz kierunki wydatkowania środków pozostających w dyspozycji.
Zwrócił uwagę na uzyskanie przez przewodniczącego Stowarzyszenia zerowej stawki
za wynajem pomieszczeń biurowych Wydziału Zarządzania Akademii Górniczo-Hutniczej
w Krakowie, a także deklaracji dr Kazimiery Mendys – prowadzącej księgi rozrachunkowe
Stowarzyszenia o obniżeniu wynagrodzenia za wykonywaną pracę. Ponadto zaprezentował
bilans PSEŚiZN, informując o nadwyżce środków finansowych, pozostających w dyspozycji,
której część może być wykorzystana na wydawnictwo i inne wydatki jubileuszowe.
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Kolejny punkt programu Walnego Zebrania stanowiło sprawozdanie przewodniczącego Komisji Rewizyjnej, zaprezentowane przez prof. R. Janikowskiego.
Komisja pozytywnie oceniła realizację przez Zarząd postanowień Statutu Stowarzyszenia,
a także skuteczność działań na rzecz zmiany nazwy oraz kondycję finansową. Jednocześnie
zaprezentowano zalecenia:
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Następnie prof. Rafał Miłaszewski, przewodniczący Sekcji Ekonomiki Użytkowania i Ochrony
Wód, funkcjonującej w ramach PSEŚiZN, przedstawił sprawozdanie z działalności Sekcji.
Szczegółowo przybliżył historię jej powstania, realizowane projekty, inicjatywy oraz zakres
działalności dydaktycznej oraz współpracy z różnymi instytucjami.
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Kolejny punkt obrad stanowiło wystąpienie mgr. inż. Andrzeja Demianowicza dotyczące
sprawozdania z działalności Fundacji Stowarzyszenia Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów
Naturalnych w Białymstoku oraz Wydawnictwa (dokument stanowi załącznik do protokołu).
Prezes A. Demianowicz potwierdził ogromne zainteresowanie publikowaniem w czasopiśmie „Ekonomia i Środowisko”, jednocześnie wskazując na konieczność ograniczenia nakładu z uwagi na wysokie koszty.
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Następnie Przewodniczący Walnego Zebrania dr M. Trela zaprosił do dyskusji programowej.
W jej trakcie pojawiły się następujące uwagi:
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Dr Elżbieta Broniewicz przedstawiła pomysł wprowadzenia elektronicznej formuły
publikacji „Ekonomii i Środowiska”.
Prof. Tomasz Żylicz podkreślił konieczność rozważenia kwestii przeznaczenia nadwyżki
finansowej.
Prof. Kazimierz Górka zwrócił uwagę na konieczność określenia dalszych losów tak zwanej zielonej serii wydawniczej Biblioteki „Ekonomia i Środowisko”.
Prof. Kazmierz Górka zaproponował rozważenie kwestii organizacji konferencji Stowarzyszenia niezwiązanej z żadnym ośrodkiem akademickim.
Prof. Kazimierz Górka zaproponował, aby zastanowić się nad możliwością powołania
kolejnej sekcji w ramach Stowarzyszenia.
Prof. Kazimierz Górka zaproponował zorganizowanie grupy członków Stowarzyszenia,
która udałaby się na konferencję European Association of Environemental and Resource Economics, organizowaną w Helsinkach, w czerwcu 2015 roku.
Prof. Małgorzata Burchard-Dziubińska zaproponowała wymianę adresów mailowych
celem przesłania członkom Stowarzyszenia sprawozdań poszczególnych Komisji.
Dr Ksymena Rosiek zaproponowała stworzenie portalu społecznościowego wewnątrz
Stowarzyszenia, umożliwiającego komunikację bezpośrednią.
Prof. Tadeusz Pindór przedstawił wysokość wpłat zaległych składek członkowskich,
jakie wpłynęły do Stowarzyszenia 13 października 2014 roku.
Prof. Adam Budnikowski podkreślił zadowolenie z dużej liczby członków Stowarzyszenia z Warszawy.
Dr Mariusz Trela potwierdził kontynuowanie prac związanych z administrowaniem
strony internetowej Stowarzyszenia.
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Kolejny punkt obrad stanowiło głosowanie nad absolutorium dla Zarządu. Przewodniczący
Walnego Zebrania dr inż. Mariusz Trela zaproponował głosowanie w trybie jawnym. Zgromadzeni wyrazili zgodę, a następnie jednomyślnie udzielili absolutorium ustępującemu
Zarządowi za kadencję 2010-2014. Przewodniczący PSEŚiZN, prof. Leszek Preisner, podziękował uczestnikom obrad za akceptacje dokonań.
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Następnie przewodniczący Walnego Zebrania ogłosił przystąpienie do wyborów, w trybie
tajnym, nowego Zarządu Polskiego Stowarzyszenia Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów
Naturalnych. Prof. L. Preisner wyraził chęć pomocy dla nowego składu Zarządu. Następnie
prezes A. Demianowicz zaproponował, aby kandydatami były wszystkie osoby z ustępującego Zarządu. Pani prof. M. Burchard-Dziubińska zaproponowała jeszcze jedną kandydaturę
prof. Barbary Kryk.
Przewodniczący dr inż. M. Trela odczytał skład dotychczasowego Zarządu i zapytał o wyrażenie zgody na kandydowanie. Wymienione osoby będące w składzie dotychczasowego
Zarządu oraz prof. Barbara Kryk wyraziły zgodę. Prof. L. Preisner zwrócił uwagę na nieobecność prof. Bogusława Fiedora informując, że posiada oświadczenie zgody prof. Bogusława
Fiedora na kandydowanie w kadencji 2014-2018. Następnie Komisja Skrutacyjna przygotowała procedurę głosowania. Odbyła się ona w trybie niejawnym (karty głosowania i protokół stanowią załącznik do protokołu).
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W trakcie liczenia głosów zaprezentowano wnioski Komisji Uchwał i Wniosków. Sprawozdanie przedstawił prof. Adam Budnikowski, wskazując na:
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postulat zebrania adresów mailowych,
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postulat wydatkowania części nadwyżki finansowej w związku z jubileuszem PSEŚiZN,
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postulat rozważenia kwestii wydawnictwa Biblioteki „Ekonomii i Środowiska” redagowanej dotychczas przez prof. Kazimierza Górkę,
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postulat wstępowania członków PSEŚiZN do European Association of Environemental
and Resource Economics,
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postulat utworzenia kolejnej sekcji,
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postulat korzystania z nowych form komunikacji,
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postulat dyscyplinowania członków w zakresie regulowania składek.
Następnie dr inż. Anna Dubel – przewodnicząca Komisji Skrutacyjnej – ogłosiła wyniki
wyborów. Komisja stwierdziła obecność 40 członków Stowarzyszenia, uprawnionych do
głosowania. Oddano 40 głosów, wszystkie ważne. W skład nowego Zarządu weszły następujące osoby (z liczbą uzyskaną głosów):
1. dr inż. Elżbieta Broniewicz – 40 głosów ZA,
2. prof. dr hab. Adam Budnikowski – 38 głosów ZA, 2 NIE,
3. dr hab. Małgorzata Burchard-Dziubińska, prof. UŁ – 40 głosów ZA,
4. prof. dr hab. Bogusław Fiedor – 40 głosów ZA,
5. prof. dr hab. Kazimierz Górka – 38 głosów, 2 NIE,
6. dr hab. inż. Andrzej Graczyk – prof. UEWr – 39 głosów ZA, 1 NIE,
7. dr hab. Barbara Kryk, prof. USz – 40 głosów ZA,
8. prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Lorek – 40 głosów ZA,
9. prof. dr hab. inż. Rafał Miłaszewski – 39 głosów ZA, 1 NIE,
10. dr hab. inż. Tadeusz Pindór – 40 głosów ZA,
11. dr hab. Leszek Preisner, prof. AGH – 40 głosów ZA.
Komisja nie stwierdziła głosów WSTRZYMUJACYCH ani NIEWAŻNYCH
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Kolejny punkt obrad stanowił wybór Komisji Rewizyjnej.
Zaproponowano następujące osoby do składu Komisji:
Prof. Piotr Małecki – dr Ksymenę Rosiek,
Prof. Kazimierz Górka – dr Paulinę Szyja,
Prof. Leszek Preisner – prof. Ryszarda Janikowskiego,
Dr Damian Panasiuk – dr Pawła Bartoszczuka,
Prof. Małgorzata Burchard-Dziubińska – prof. Mariusza Plicha.
Komisja Skrutacyjna przeprowadziła głosowanie w trybie tajnym. Karty do glosowania
oraz protokół stanowią załącznik do protokołu). Następnie ogłoszono wyniki. Obecność na
sali wynosiła 40 członków PSEŚiZN uprawnionych do głosowania. Oddano 40 głosów,
wszystkie ważne. W skład nowej Komisji Rewizyjnej weszły następujące osoby (z liczbą uzyskaną głosów „ZA”):
1. dr Paweł Bartoszczuk – 39 głosów ZA, 1 NIE,
2. prof. dr hab. inż. Ryszard Janikowski – 40 głosów ZA,
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dr hab. Mariusz Plich, prof. UŁ – 38 głosów ZA, 2 NIE,
dr Ksymena Rosiek – 39 głosów ZA, 1 NIE,
dr Paulina Szyja – 38 TAK, 2 NIE.
Komisja nie stwierdziła głosów WSTRZYMUJACYCH ani NIEWAŻNYCH.
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Kolejny punkt obrad stanowiło ukonstytuowanie się składu Zarządu Polskiego Stowarzyszenia Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych w kadencji 2014-2018. W trakcie
pierwszego posiedzenia w nowej kadencji Zarząd ukonstytuował następująco:
1. dr hab. Leszek Preisner, prof. AGH – przewodniczący,
2. prof. dr hab. Adam Budnikowski – wiceprzewodniczący,
3. prof. dr hab. Bogusław Fiedor – wiceprzewodniczący,
4. dr hab. Małgorzata Burchard-Dziubińska, prof. UŁ – sekretarz,
5. dr hab. inż. Tadeusz Pindór – skarbnik,
6. dr inż. Elżbieta Broniewicz,
7. prof. dr hab. Kazimierz Górka,
8. dr hab. inż. Andrzej Graczyk – prof. UEWr,
9. dr hab. Barbara Kryk, prof. USz,
10. prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Lorek,
11. prof. dr hab. inż. Rafał Miłaszewski.
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Ukonstytuowała się także Komisja Rewizyjna w składzie:
1. prof. dr hab. inż. Ryszard Janikowski – przewodniczący,
2. dr hab. Mariusz Plich, prof. UŁ – wiceprzewodniczący,
3. dr Paulina Szyja – wiceprzewodnicząca,
4. dr Paweł Bartoszczuk,
5. dr Ksymena Rosiek.
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Dr inż. Mariusz Trela, przewodniczący Walnego Zebrania Polskiego Stowarzyszenia Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych, podziękował zgromadzonym członkom za udział
w obradach i zakończył posiedzenie.
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Walne Zebranie Polskiego Stowarzyszenia Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych
Komisja w składzie: prof. dr hab. Adam Budnikowski –członek, prof. dr hab. Kazimierz Górka
– Przewodniczący, dr Ksymena Rosiek – sekretarz.
W trakcie walnego zgromadzenia Walnego Zebrania Sprawozdawczo-Wyborczego Polskiego Stowarzyszenia Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych, które odbyło się
13 października 2014 roku w Łodzi, zgłoszono wnioski w następujących sprawach
1. Zaniechanie powoływania członków Komisji do spraw odwołań, ze względu na brak
odwołań – złożony przez prof. Ryszarda Janikowskiego przewodniczącego Komisji Rewizyjnej – wniosek został poparty przez Walne Zgromadzenie.
2. Wprowadzenie – oprócz dotychczasowej formy drukowanej, chociaż w zmniejszonym
nakładzie – elektronicznej formuły publikacji „Ekonomii i Środowiska” – złożony przez dr
Elżbietę Broniewicz. W niosek poparto i zalecono kontynuację działań rozpoznawania
wymagań prawnych i technicznych.
3. Rozważenie kwestii przeznaczenia nadwyżki finansowej – złożony przez prof. Tomasza
Żylicza, przyjęty do rozpatrzenia; wskazano na możliwość zaangażowania tych środków w organizowanie konferencji jubileuszowej.
4. Rozważenie możliwości sprzedaży akcji BOŚ SA – złożony przez prof. Tomasza Żylicza,
przyjęty do rozpatrzenia.
5. Określenie dalszych losów tak zwanej zielonej serii wydawniczej Biblioteki „Ekonomia
i Środowisko” – złożony przez prof. Kazimierza Górkę, przyjęty do rozpatrzenia.
6. Rozważenie kwestii organizacji konferencji Stowarzyszenia z okazji 25-lecia Stowarzyszenia – złożony przez prof. Kazimierza Górkę, przyjęty do rozpatrzenia.
7. Rozważenie możliwości powołania kolejnej sekcji w ramach Stowarzyszenia – złożony
przez prof. Kazimierza Górkę, przyjęty do rozpatrzenia.
8. Zorganizowanie grupy członków Stowarzyszenia, która udałaby się na konferencję European Association of Environemental and Resource Economics, organizowaną w Helsinkach w czerwcu 2015 roku i kolejną w Zurichu w 2016 roku – złożony przez prof. Kazimierza Górkę, przyjęty do rozpatrzenia.
9. Zebranie adresów mailowych celem przesłania członkom Stowarzyszenia sprawozdań
poszczególnych Komisji przed walnym zebraniem, co usprawniłoby obrady – złożony
przez prof. Małgorzatę Burchard-Dziubińską, przyjęty do rozpatrzenia;
10. Stworzenie internetowego portalu społecznościowego wewnątrz Stowarzyszenia,
umożliwiającego szybszą komunikację – złożony przez dr Ksymenę Rosiek, przyjęty do
rozpatrzenia.
Wszystkie wnioski zostały złożone prawidłowo, wniosek numer jeden został od razu przegłosowany, pozostałe zostały przyjęte do rozpatrzenia przez Zarząd Stowarzyszenia.
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